The 'team' blew that game at Bradford.



Amos Roberts had a sensational game up until his late spill of the ball. These things happen now and again.

When you've been burned by Damo twice in one thread it may be best to keep your gob shut

Fitzgibbon Fitzgibbon Fitzgibbon. already won first player of the month in super league. different class to anyone in super league

Based on 7 rounds of rugby, all these players have been "stand-out" and should be considerd all IMO:



Wigan - S Tomkins, Richards, Roberts

Saints - Eastmond

Giants - Cudjoe, Fa'alogo

Wakey - Obst, Tronc

Hull - Fitzgibbon, Long (if he plays enough games)

HKR - Vella

Crusaders - Witt

Bulls - Orford

Wolves - King, Westwood

Leeds - McGuire (his try against quins alone puts him here for me)

Cas - Westerman

Catalan - Walker

3 things Damo hasn't got.



Looks.



Charisma.



Gainful employment.





Barry McKenzie has all of the above...in spades.





Have I mentioned I scored 6/8 in last weeks tipping, beating both Gus Gould (3) and fibro warrior himself Roy Masters (5)???





I'm a dead set legend

I wouldn't include the first 2 tbh. Sam is playing well and developing his game very nicely but he hasn't been one of our best 3 players(one of the top 5 though) nor has Richards who again is playing well(again probably top 5 or 6) but wouldn't be in my running for man of Steel(at the moment).



Wigans best 3 players this season have been(in order)-



Amos Roberts

Sean O'Loughlin

Joel Tomkins

Couldn't really go for Vella for us unfortunately.

Would agree with Damo (did I really say that!) that many Aussies go back from Super League and sucessfully play NRL at the highest level.



Ryan Tandy had spent time in lower leagues over here before starring in the NRL.



However, the current Leaderboard for the Albert Goldthorpe Medal, (whilst not necessarily being an indicator of who will be Man Of Steel) does show that some of what Barry Mc says is correct in that the form players have a heavy leaning towards former NRL players.



Leaderboard:

Amos Roberts (Wigan) 11 Pts

Michael Wiit (Crusaders) 9

Matt Orford (Bradford) 8

Matt King (Warrington) 8

Michael Dobson (Hull KR) 8

Craig Fitzgibbon (Hull FC) 7

Kevn Brown (Huddersfield) 7

Ben Jeffries (Wakefiled) 6

Danny Brough (Wakefield) 6

Brett Hodgson (Huddersfield) 6

Brett Kearney (Bradford) 6

Danny McGuire (Leeds) 6

Sam Obst (Wakefield) 6

no arguments here, do you go to the same circus school as League Freak by any chance?

Fitzy has definitely been Hull's outstanding player. I don't fully agree with that on long though. Long's been good, generally, and great vs Saints, but not MOS quality. Out of all the Hull players, fitzy deserves it the most, followed by (probably) O'meley - there's a massive difference between when he's on and off.

But yeah, fitzy is by far the best Candidate from hull.

Highly anomynous two weeks ago at the DW..!

Was he? I thought he played exceptionally despite Hull being cack that day.