Quote ="Gerald Weaver":2d0lmskwSir "Mighty Mouse" McGeechan writing in the Sunday Telegraph today:
" I thought the choice of Joel Tomkins at outside centre was also a success. He is a very clever defensive player, and apart from one lapse his reading of the game was superb.
It is important to have a player who is very strong in terms of knowledge and awareness at 13, and those qualities were very much in evidence in the way Tomkins played. I was very much impressed by him, and by his physicality."
Two other positive references elsewhere in the same article.
When someone as steeped in RU as McGeechan has that opinion I think it's fair to say Tomkins has a future in the code.
Singing Warrior had it right when he said that the town of Wigan should proud of the success of all its sporting sons rather than decrying those who choose another path. Who knows, one day the RFU may want to adopt Wigan St Pats as its northern academy!'"
Nicknamed Mighty Mouse, he represented Scotland at loosehead prop from 1969 to 1979".
