Brilliant, chuffed to bits for the lad. Karen, if you read this forum you must be on pe chuffed mum

Fantastic season for Tom, justly rewarded tonight. Nice montage of some of his scores on the skysports.com website.

Big raps to Tom. a real star in the making. You need to tie him down to a long contract because he'll be in demand.

He signed a 4 year contract in July.

That length of the field try against Shudds when he handed off, stepped or outpaced the entire team is a joy to watch; easy to forget the good times when the season has petered out in the way it has - but the emergence of TJ as a genuine talent has been a real high point - thoroughly deserved award!

What a fantastic effort, well done Tom Johnstone thoroughly deserved young man.

Great honour for Tom and the club.Well done lad.

i can only add to others and say very well done Tom. Here's to a full season next year. stay lucky

Great feather in the cap for TJ and Trinity. Well done Tom. Hope you don't get your head turned by other clubs. You're ours, mate!!!

Unfortunately, bigger clubs will always try and turn players like Tom's heads, especially if they start to gain international recognition. For what it's worth, I would be trying to get him into the England system if I had anything to do with it, alongside our own Greg Minikin. Thats where the Knights system worked. Now there would be a future England centre/wing partnership that could be special. I don't care which club he plays for, he's a talent, and it's nice to see players from clubs in our area getting the recognition rather than the usual suspects

I agree caslad! Well said!

Cant believe this is not "front page" news on the website, it doesnt get a mention, very poor indeed.

Yes I'm surprised also, when he was announced of being in the shortlist it was. I don't know who updates the website but they need to crack on.

Indeed, for a club that is not usually blessed with good news, TJ getting the young player is a massive deal, for the lad and for Trinity.

When was the last time we got a young player of year award? Talking about it at work, did Michael Jackson get young player of year whilst with us and what about Nigel Wright

Think Jackso was in his early 20's when he joined us. Don't think poor old Wrighty played often enoug - so to answer your question I don't think we've ever had one?

Anyway congrats Tom from a fan of yours right fram the start - I said you had start quality written all over you and know that's no longer in doubt (unless you have a few bad games and then the usual suspects will be demanding you're dropped, that's fame for you).

Probably all still in shock that a Wakey player got some praise and won something.

You may be right.
If you pass them the hymn sheet, we can all sing his praises together

d you form that opinion based on one boxing day game

Congratulations Tom.
I don't know the guy personally, but he seems a fairly level-headed young man who realises that he still has a lot of development to go to become international class. The potential is clearly there and I just hope he is able to achieve all his goals whilst still at Wakefield.
He's in some fairly impressive company:

[uYear Winner Club
[/u1996 Andy Farrell Wigan Warriors
1997 Lee Briers Warrington Wolves
1998 Lee Gilmour Wigan Warriors
1999 Leon Pryce Bradford Bulls
2000 Stuart Fielden Bradford Bulls
2001 Rob Burrow Leeds Rhinos
2002 Richard Horne Hull F.C.
2003 Gareth Hock Wigan Warriors
2004 Shaun Briscoe Hull F.C.
2005 Richard Whiting Hull F.C.
2006 James Graham St Helens
2007 Sam Burgess Bradford Bulls
2008 Joe Westerman Castleford Tigers
2009 Sam Tomkins Wigan Warriors
2010 Sam Tomkins Wigan Warriors
2011 Jonny Lomax St Helens
2012 Zak Hardaker Leeds Rhinos
2013 Ben Crooks Hull F.C.
2014 Daryl Clark Castleford Tigers
2015 George Williams Wigan Warriors

Some excellent company to be in looking at a most of those names. Hopefully Jowitt continues to improve the way he has and he'll be in the running next year.

The webpage is currently undergoing some work, I'm sure the news will be on there as soon as they can get it on.

Must be unable to spell Wakefield trinity

Must be unable to spell Wakefield trinity

They've been putting stuff on there all week, just not the biggest story of them all. Hey ho, too late now but i'd have thought they'd have wanted to shout it from every roof top going.