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 Post subject: Re: Sam Tomkins
PostPosted: Fri Mar 10, 2023 10:20 pm 
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Egg Chasing wrote:2012.

His try at Magic that season was something special too.


I could watch that try 7 days a week.
An absolutely fabulous try scored with panache and it seemed almost effortless.
Brilliant brilliant try.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 10, 2023 11:26 pm 
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Fine player agree with all that’s been said

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Wigan TV should do a compilation.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 10, 2023 11:42 pm 
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Can Wigan have him back please

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A sign of how good he’s been is how detested he is with many supporters across the game. He just terrorised teams over and again to a level I’ve not really seen anybody do before. It was an absolute disgrace that he lost out on another couple of man of steel awards he should’ve got.

I think the biggest compliment you can give him and something that shows his class is how well he’s adapted his game since his pace went. The game was easy for him in his early days but it takes a special player to reinvent themselves.

Pretty gutted I’ll not get to see him live again as I’m away for the two games we have left against them.

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The Anus of Wigan episode






All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

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CobraCraig wrote:For me he is talent wise the best player I have seen at Wigan (I’m 37) his first stint was brilliant, shame injuries got a hold of him to stunt his career a little but it says a lot that he lost a lot of his speed and agility (his main assets), changed his game and still won a man of steel in his 30s


He is the best Wigan fullback I have ever seen and I am quite a bit older than you Craig. At his best he was virtually unplayable.

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I've watched Wigan since the mid 1950's and Sam is the best fullback I've ever seen at the club.

As many have said those two tries against Saints were standout moments but for me my favourite moment and the time I realised what an exceptional talent he was came in an academy final v Leeds at Leeds.
In the semi v Widnes a mass brawl broke out and Wigan were then missing about five players for the final.

Wigan were just in front when Leeds kicked a ball just inside the dead ball line. Sam left it waiting for it to go dead, it didn't and Leeds scored. He was so annoyed with himself beating the pitch with his fists in frustration.

A few minutes later Sam got the ball about sixty metres out, beat three men with ridiculous ease and about thirty metres out slipped a beautiful pass to Chris Ashton who went in under the posts.

That's when I saw desire, competitiveness and will to win in him, something that can't really be coached.






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NickyKiss wrote:A sign of how good he’s been is how detested he is with many supporters across the game.


He had a certain arrogance about him in his younger years that all good half backs need. Some have it without really deserving it, but he could truly back it up.

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Rogues Gallery wrote:That's when I saw desire, competitiveness and will to win in him, something that can't really be coached.


It's what separates the great from the really great.

His reaction to the Wire no try in 2010 at their place a key example of that passion.

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