for me at the minute it is tomkins but this is just my opinion. slater is great player but i think tomkins has more about him.

Slater is the better player right now, but Slater wasn't as good as Tomkins when he was 23.

If Tomkins keeps improving like he is doing now, he will be just as good if not better than Slater.

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Slater>>>>>>>>>The rest

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slater has been at the top alot longer but for the last few years mistakes are creeping into hes game just like sam has mistakes in him. its allways going to be tough compairing them as sam will only ever get recognition 3 or 4 times a year at international level by some superleague fans. but the last two years sam has just kept improving and hes attack is better than slater right now but people will just put that to more room in superleague defences.

You Wigan fans are totally and utterly deluded. Billy Slater has been doing it in the NRL, Origin and for Australia for years. He's an amazing player.

Sam Tomkins has been solid but no more at international level so far and is playing Super League? What do you think Billy Slater would do to Super League? He's better than Jamie Lyon, and he made the competition look silly. I reckon Slater in SL would score 50 tries in a decent team, he'd be unplayable.

This is exactly the reason Tomkins should be pushing for a move to the NRL rather than following the club's career ladder and leaving for their parent club Saracens or staying in SL any longer. He's too good for SL and should test himself in the NRL.

I'd rather have Wellens.

slater now enough of the sillyness ha ha

Billy Slater and it's not even close.

Slater by a considerable margin.

Slater, Hayne, Stewart >>>>>>> Tomkins

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Slater is not the perfect player that people seem to think he is - he still has a tendency to go missing in big games (like today!)

Tomkins needs to be in NRL before you can really compare the 2.

Slater does make mistakes but he is easily better than Tomkins. Until Tomkins can become safe under a bomb he will not come near to Slater. Slater is better in attack and quite a bit better defensively.

he was injured after the first nsw try and never recovered from the looks of it did well to stay on the field

And he still managed to cause the Blues some problems. The guy is top notch.

Slater is a way ahead of Sam T. He has been dominant against the best defences in world RL ie NSW and NRL teams for years. Sam has dominated SL and done ok at international level. Still plenty to prove. He would be closed down quicker and have less time to do his work in the Aussie game. We would then see how good he really is. I really hope Sam goes to the NRL and not onion in the future. Then we be able to compare him against the Aussie fullbacks.

Tomkins has without a doubt the ability to become an outstanding player like Slater if not even better in time.

Let me get one thing straight (and I am not suggesting either player is better here)

So people are suggesting slater is better because he has done it for Melbourne (the best nrl side for the past 5 years), Queensland (a by far better side over the past 6 years than NSW) and Australia (the best international team)

Yet the same people argue that McILorum cannot be classed as good as roby because McIlorum is playing in the best team in his competition.

I have no doubt that you put Tomkins in the melbourne, Queensland and Aus teams and he will be a much better player because those teams are dominant in aus.

All I am stating here is that people need to get their arguments straight, if you can call slater so much better (despite playing week in week out with some of the greatest players the world has ever seen) then why can't you state McIlorum is at a similar level to Roby despite playing in the best team in SL?

Slater > Inglis > B Stewart > Barba > Tomkins

I'd also be tempted to include Barba on that list.

It is a pleasure to watch sam tomkins play rugby league week in, week out. For me he is better than slater, he is nothing short of outstanding in attack and his defence is constantly improving. I think people are forgetting sam tomkins has been playing full back for about 2 years! For us to be even comparing him with billy slater just shows what a remarkable rugby league player he is.

On the international arguement, sam has been very good on this stage aswell. I remember his international debut at wigan when there was only him and kyle eastmond who put a bit of spark into england. I'd also like to point out how he performed against the kiwis and also the aussies at wembley, he made the initial break to put reed away resulting in halls try and he threw a lovely little flick pass for one of our trys in the second half. In the final he played behind a battered pack, any full back would struggle for space in a game like that.

Tomkins has the potential to be one of the great english rugby league players and I think the respect that the one and only billy boston paid to him on super league super men last week was praise of the highest order.