Speaking to a footy manager here in Oz. They said that Tom was being chased by Souths. No real surprise. Sorry if it's old news.

Oh and sincerely good luck from Down Under with all the current troubles.

cheers mate, I think burgess will go seen as though all his brothers are out there, great player and will be even better in the future.

Great player? Makes lots of mistakes, gives away penalties and misses tonnes of tackles. Yes he's only young but he's nowhere near the player most fans think he is. If we had a fully fit squad (yeah right) he wouldn't make my 17.

Who would you pick in front of him?

He makes the odd mistake but other than that he 's been excellent this season.

He's not great yet and a long way off, but he shows some serious potential.

He is not the only one that misses the odd tackle and drops the ball, handling can be improved, defensively I think he has been pretty solid, few big hits stick out in my mind!

The damage he does when taking the ball up is priceless! Wins a very high percentage of his collisions and quite often gets a fast play the ball from it. This is where his knocks on creep in. For me we need to try keep him, he is the future and the best link for the others possibly returning in the future.

This is of course if we survive!

He's come on leaps and bounds as the season has progressed.
I watched the Rabbitohs and Roosters this morning on Premier Sports. 3 of the Burgess brothers on the field-- Sam man of the match with over 40 tackles.
Can you imagine the publicity if all 4 played for the same team?
Perhaps we should say to Russell Crowe-- come in and be our benefactor like you were for Souths and we'll let you have Tom. Your Aussie team can create history and you can adopt a British team with an iconic ground.

He could relaunch his film career with "Bradford - Confidential" where he stars as the good-guy in a dark tail of deceit and corruption set against background of a mysterious hole in the ground being fought over by local gangs?

Or he could provide the Narration of a dark documentary in the style of hard hitting Aussie Surf Doc, Bra Boys.

I think Burgess has made good progress this year and is easily one of the best Props of his age in SL IMO. In the last couple of months he seems to have cut out some of the errors and is doing longer minutes. I'd like to hold onto him if possible, seems unlikely though.

Exactly! Couldn't have put it better myself.
Needs to lose weight and play longer than 5 mins without blowing out of his
Butt

Depends whether he wants to play or watch. As far as I know George hasn't played for Souths yet. The lifestyle mat be great but they won't keep you for ever with no return. By the way is there any limit in Oz on overseas players as that would give Souths four from the same family

George played last week and in today's game against the Roosters. He did not look out of place. Luke is playing regularly and seems to be a better player than when he was at the Rhinos. As I mentioned earlier, Sam was the man of the match.

George has made his 1st grade debut at Souths too.

To be fair George debuted a few weeks ago.

He has been in reserve grade where last year he was powerful but made a few mistakes. This season he's been carving it up there and has on a couple of occasions played U20s, where, he absolutely killed the opposition. So they deemed it a bit silly to play against other kids.

Sam looked absolutely superb as always. Luke looked a workaday player. George, when he came on, looked a monster, but his impact seems to restricted to hit-ups, whereas Sam is just a bloody phenomenon, played for 80 and was just immense all round but in particular his tackling stint was superhuman.

Tom has got potential class written all over him. Of course he's far from the finished article, but you only have to watch him take the ball up to see he's an exceptional prospect.

When George left Bradford were they similar in development or was one of the twins better in some areas?

I think the perception was that George was slightly ahead, but that Tom has come on more quickly through playing first grade rugby.

Personally, I suspect that Tom has already decided to go to Souths, and quite likely a deal has already been agreed. I'm resigned to the fact that he'll leave at the end of the season, much as I'd like him to stay.

Hehe - put a smile on my face

Oy you two pseudo stattos!!! The only thing worse than statistics is pseudo statistics. definition of pseudo statistics. figures that are picked out of the air and blown out of a butt.

Cheers, it could be interesting to see how far apart they are next season.

Maguire seems to have a great talent at aiding the development of young forwards.

If the Caisley consortium gets control of the club and SL status is secured then Burgess may stay. If anything else happens he's gone.

If Caisely is Burgess IV's agent it will no doubt be in Caisely's financial interest for him to go.

If you look at his stats, they're very good. Not a huge amount of errors or missed tackles and great go forward.

Personally I think if they stop trying the crash ball with him he'd drop a lot fewer balls and there would be less to moan about him. Let him concentrate on making the yards for now, the impact can come