if Ainscough was a Saints player he'd be number 1 on that list of yours on your sig and you'd calling for him to be MOS let alone YPOTY.



As for Tomkins vs Myler, Myler scored of a kick through and scored after supporting a break, yet Sam set up a try, created a 50m try on his own and scored 40m try off a mistake.



So yeah Tomkins got outplayed by Myler and Eastmond should be YPOTY cause of a kick and a drop goal

For Burgess & Graham Read Morley/Peacock/Fielden!



For the rest read :- Wellens/Hodgson/R Horne/D McGuire/Rob Burrow/Sinfield/Roby/Gleeson/L Robinson/K Brown/Hock/P Cooke/L Pryce/S Wild/C Walker/K Yeaman etc etc.



At the time the Sky Brigade and many fans were thinking these players were going to improve us Internationally, Did they???



We have had exciting youngsters developing EVERY YEAR for the last 100 years.

Unfortunatley this hasn't always transposed itself onto the international scene and in some ways we have gone backwards.

Mylers all round game is better and so is Eastmonds.

Not sure how you can say that about Eastmond so far.

I would compare Tomkins to Danny Mcguire in that he's a runner, a line-breaker, an off the cuff player who can make something happen out of nothing.



Put alongside an organiser and a creator (which by the way Leuluai most certainly isn't) its very exciting to think of the impact Sam can have.

ahmeister clearly has a thang for Eastmond, so leave him alone with his unfounded fantasies.



we shall see who plays the best on the weekend

I watched the reserve final at Saints last year and Tomkins was a class act whereas Eastmond was dreadful. I'm sure he could have played better but he didn't seem interested. Even the Saints speccies were annoyed at him.

He kicked a drop-goal against "the Pies"!! Surely he's world class now!!

at ashmeister

Cant quite see whats so funny with my opinion on Sam Tomkins.



Ritchie Myler this season, as been the better player of the two. Eastmond on the other hand as been injured.



Hopefully Kyle is fully fit now and can enjoy the rest of the season. Starting with Murrayfield.

It's not funny it's just wrong(everyones entiltles to be wrong i may add).



Myler has been superb this year but has played every minute of every game for Salford and is in his second full season of first team rugby. Tomkins on the other hand has been playing in short bursts and is just feeling his way in to first team rugby(and doing a great job).



Due to Eastmonds lack of gametime it's hard to make a call on him as a whole but as for this season alone he shouldn't be named in the same breath as Myler or Tomkins.



In reserve team rugby i do believe Tomkins has had Eastmond in his back pocket on pretty much every occasion they've faced each other though.

To be fair, a number of those you've named have only been bigged up by their clubs supporters (Wellens/Hodgson/Sinfield/Brown/Wild/Walker), a few have had other reasons for not taking their game on (I think Yeamans injury knocked him back years, Robinson dropping to a team of lesser quality).



I think you're being harsh on the three props you name, who have all done well at international level on a fairly consistent basis, Roby did well in the last two tournaments and Gleeson has played well, as as Hock (though a touch inconsistently)



In fact the only player that really hasn't improved his game as I thought he might is McGuire.