Great honour. He received the VB $1000 award from Andrew Johns who said " We love having you here and enjoy watching you play."



The commentators, especially Ray Warren, were raving about him throughout the match.



He and Sam Burgess and George Burgess are having a huge impact on the NRL, and are raising Australian awareness of English rugby league talent.



It will be interesting to see if Hock, Mossop and Casty can match the impact of those three, especially since Tom Burgess is due to burst on to the NRL scene very soon and form the Terrible Twins with identical brother George.

Dont think many people will be surprised at the impact burgess and graham have had on the nrl.hock has the potential to be a big hit but anything could happen with him,hes a complete hand granade.mossop and casty are good props and will do well similar to luke burgess but they cant be expected to have the same impact as burgess and graham who are a different level.

Glad to read that Jammer received the MoM award today. I've recorded the match and am looking forward to watching it tomorrow night when there is no Superleague on TV.

He's fantastic.



While we often hear Sam talk about how much he loved it here, I don't even know how Graham feels. He's probably spoken about it and I've just missed it, but I hope he's really enjoying himself because we'd love him to stick around.

Josh Reynolds should have got it

Graham and the Burgesses ought to be doing well as they are our best players



For once come the WC at least the Aussies and Kiwis will think that the Poms actually have some decent player which is different from the last few years



It's all in the mind........apparently

We have a great pack that can easily match the Aussies.



Its not all in the mind anymore but it is in the halves.

Which is rubbish IMO



We have options in the halves something which we've rarely had. Despite what the doom mongers say on here we actually have the strongest squad in a very long time, saying that so do the Aussies

And we have some big, strong, athletic backs.



Defence out wide is a worry, as that's were we can fall short. Fingers crossed we can get that sorted too.

I've heard rumors that he is homesick but I hope it isnt true because the Dogs are a different team with him in than they are when he isn't there. Just look at how our pick up of form coincided with his return to the side. Im sure since he came back theres only been 1 loss, and that was to Newcastle.

They do and they don't.



Thurston/Cronk are no where near as good as Lockyer/Thurston or Lockyer/Johns. The later 2 were better than anything I have ever seen and although Thurston is often talked about as being up there with the best (and he is better than anything we have ever had over here in recent times), he cant take a game like Lockyer did in the '(was it) '04 or '05 Tri Nations final and win it on his own.



Still better than our halves but they arent scary. They can be controlled if we play well enough. Johns and Lockyer could go through teams like they were playing against kids if they were in the mood for it.

Agree about their halves, I sometimes forgot how lucky I've been to see the johns/Lockyer era, they were scarily good.



Cronk and thurston can be contained look at origin 1. I also don't think outr half backs are half as bad as people on here make out.