Obviously I don't mean "he's strong as hell he must be a cracking rugby player!" That would be redundant. I meant he's clearly a very strong, powerful bloke (something that does help in being a front rower) so he must be lacking elsewhere.

I've heard SW be critical of his basic skills, ball handling etc. He always looked like one of those players who could have an error in them at any point.

As a post script, Tom last night won the 'Leigh Life' (i.e. the fans) player of the year award - something I would think is quite rare for a dual contract player.

And, in answer to the comments that SW perhaps saw gaps in Tom's range of skills, perhaps his new coach will be able to address this, and succeed where SW didn't?

I'm not convinced he was given enough opportunity at Wigan but you have to admit they don't get much wrong so good luck to him at Leigh.

Handling errors killed his momentum on any chances he got for us. He knocked on with his first touch on debut at Langtree park on Good Friday 2012 and that seemed a theme of his brief appearances.

He had a cracking game at HKR on Easter Monday this year in the 84-6 win over HKR but who didn't I suppose. I back the clubs judgement on this, they get very few wrong when it comes to releasing young players.