Kevin Locke is sidelined with a knee injury and not due to return until Round 12 at the earliest, but probably later than that.

Agreed.

Just like the NZ Warriors themselves who often display both.

That's why they won't win the NRL comp anytime soon. Way too many weaknesses.

I haven't seen any of Tomkins games for NZ, but what I will say is that if you have seen enough of his tackling after 3 games to decide that his defence isn't good enough, then your pack is in big trouble because you are getting breached, a lot.

ive only seen the first game against an average parramata team and they were sliced open at will down the flanks.if that continues then it will be a difficult season for the warriors and the big money pom is bound to be the scape goat despite many shortcomings in that team.

He made a right mess of the Tiger's second try today. He was letting it roll dead for the 20m tap and Tedesco grounded it before it got there.

Great individual try though and he had a hand in a couple of others.

Directly involved with key contributions to about 4 tries today.

Couple of clangers too.

Very mixed, definitely not terrible.

A number of players made clangers in that game. Tomkins performance probably evened itself out over the course of the game...

Tomkins stats...

Tries: 1
Tackles: 10
Missed Tackles: 3
Runs: 11
Metres Gained: 72
Offloads: 1
Line Breaks: 1
Line Break Assists: 2
Errors: 4

and the earth orbits the sun in an erratic orbit, the universe is expanding whilst the sun is burning itself out.

so?

I think once he has settled in he will live up to his tag.probably will take until the second half of the season though.

A lot of wise pundits agree with you.

Samuel Tomkins' performance yesterday was described by Andrew Voss as a mix of rocks and diamonds. We await the days when the rocks will have been sifted out and only diamonds are apparent.