Think Hardaker does a bit of a squirrel tackle first and Sam sees it and gets involved.

Ey up, he's here

Hardaker is a good FB. Was brilliant for a bit at Leeds, and sublime 2017 at Cas. Just lost that yard of pace now, and Shabby have any passing skills like Tomkins.

In fact Tomkins still the best player in SL by a country mile....!

Does look like a grab takes place in that area when you watch footage back,

Why would you have your hand between someone's legs?. Flanagan got a 10 game ban for the Bulls.

He’s a good FB and a good centre and for me he’s been superb for us. The past few games he’s been poor - alongside 17 of his teammates. He has self confidence and that’s evident from his comments, and why shouldn’t he?



Let’s have it right there’s only one person to blame for Zak’s and the rest of the teams poor play - Adrian Lam.

I think he made a rod for his own back a few weeks ago with them comments bigging himself up.. just wasn't necessary.



What sort of ban will he be looking at ?

He’s a good player, I agree, with the odd flash of brilliance but in his head he thinks he is superb all the time. Those days are behind him, he needs to knuckle down and concentrate on being a team player instead of a “superstar” but Lam will have a few weeks without him





The quality of the league is poor this year again, and that’s the biggest worry.

The worst part of all this is we'll probably end up with Hanley at full back for a good few weeks.

I wonder if it’s worth giving Smith a run at FB?

That could be the making of him with luck .



Regards EW

Sam Tomkins is a shadow of the player he was a decade ago.



The standard of SL has been tumbling off a cliff for years so it's no wonder he still looks handy.

That's his favoured position and one he has excelled in at academy level. Give the lad a chance.