Re: Luke Thompson : Sat Oct 11, 2014 11:17 pm  

Always been a Thompson fan. he has no fear and just goes for it.

jury is out on Richards who looks to be carrying a bit too much weight around his booty.

Re: Luke Thompson : Sat Oct 11, 2014 11:23 pm  

saint at wire wrote:

Always been a Thompson fan. he has no fear and just goes for it.

jury is out on Richards who looks to be carrying a bit too much weight around his booty.

Richards is exceptional for a 19 year old kid playing at prop forward.

Re: Luke Thompson : Sat Oct 11, 2014 11:38 pm  

Dux wrote:

Richards is exceptional for a 19 year old kid playing at prop forward.

He also only turned 19 in July so played a majority of the season at Prop for a 18 year old. Brave lad.

Re: Luke Thompson : Sat Oct 11, 2014 11:47 pm  

Thompson was incredible. A ridiculous performance from such a young kid against such a physical team in such a big occasion.

Both him and Richards for me have taken the starting shirts and should keep them.

Re: Luke Thompson : Sat Oct 11, 2014 11:49 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Thompson was incredible. A ridiculous performance from such a young kid against such a physical team in such a big occasion.

Both him and Richards for me have taken the starting shirts and should keep them.

I wouldn't start them both. At the moment Thompson is the better player but I can see Richards developing into a very good starting prop forward. For Thompson, I think he ups the pace and brings energy in the forwards when he comes on from the bench which is how i'd see him used at the start of next season.

Re: Luke Thompson : Sat Oct 11, 2014 11:50 pm  

SecondRowSaint wrote:

I wouldn't start them both. At the moment Thompson is the better player but I can see Richards developing into a very good starting prop forward. For Thompson, I think he ups the pace and brings energy in the forwards when he comes on from the bench which is how i'd see him used at the start of next season.

As a second row?

Re: Luke Thompson : Sun Oct 12, 2014 12:07 am  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

As a second row?

I'd run Thompson as a second row personally unless we have injuries. We're covered at prop with Walmsley, Amor, Masoe, Richards in our match day squad then probably have Thompson, LMS and Vea as second rows in the squad. Still got others to cover then haven't we. All my opinion obviously and how I see fit, but others would have different ideas to how I view it.

Re: Luke Thompson : Sun Oct 12, 2014 12:12 am  

SecondRowSaint wrote:

I wouldn't start them both. .

I didn't actually mean the 8 and 10 shirts. I mean they've earned first dibs on a place in the 17 every week. If they keep up the performance levels of recent weeks, they should remain there.

Re: Luke Thompson : Sun Oct 12, 2014 12:39 am  

SecondRowSaint wrote:

I'd run Thompson as a second row personally unless we have injuries. We're covered at prop with Walmsley, Amor, Masoe, Richards in our match day squad then probably have Thompson, LMS and Vea as second rows in the squad. Still got others to cover then haven't we. All my opinion obviously and how I see fit, but others would have different ideas to how I view it.

No he is going to be a superb second rower. He has strength, pace and no fear.

Re: Luke Thompson : Sun Oct 12, 2014 1:41 am  

Thompson was outstanding with and without the ball, Richards was solid.