Quote ="sally cinnamon"The early Toa was one of the most exciting players we've had, in fact I'll be controversial and say the Toa of about 1999-2001 was better than King, Bridge or Atkins are now. He could swerve and step without dropping pace and he had good hands as well. Toa at his best would have ripped up if he was in our team now, I reckon he'd have had about 30 tries a season.
Second spell with us he wasn't quite the same attacking force but his defence was better and he'd cleaned the high tackles out of his game. Now you look back on his career I think he's one like Cardiss and Reardon who had injuries take the edge off his game quite early in his career, it was a shame. He was still a decent player but when you think back to the days before he went to Hull, he was dynamite. He was my favourite Wire player at the time and still one of my all time faves. Hope he's cheering on the Wire on Saturday...'"
I tend to agree. Great strength, speed, balance, handling and commitment.
