Should have been dropped weeks ago (according to expert opinion)

And he did get dropped to what could be called the reserves where he got confidence back buy been on winning team, scoring tries and been able to play without no way near enough pressure and the much needed confidence showed yesterday good on smith for seeing that a run of bad games can dent a young ones confidence and doing the right thing to get it back as some on here said too

I don't think B S will have a problem leaving players out for a week or two.

Wrong,he had an injury, they wanted him to play few minutes for the reserves to asess his recovery but due to reasons ended up playing big minutes for the reserves and not risked for the first team.

So he played 80 mins with an injury for reserves ok that makes sense....nether the less playing for resevers did trick because v fev and cas for first team he was shocking v widnes not good played and scored 2 for reserves instead of been in well beaten side v cas comes back in and does really well v kr.

Thing is i like tom think he has great future ahead but we need to remember hes still very young and raw

Agree with you,but we must persevere with the youngsters with experience around them.

No he played 40 mins for reserves he came on at half time

That was the other Tom Johnstone

but what do I know