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

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.

Some people seem to want him to fail.

In attack he's been brilliant in each game, great try today and he's set up a few tries with some class handling. He has had his problems defensively though, dropped a few bombs, the one he tried to shepherd out.

Rocks & diamonds probably sums it up well.

He's shown good glimpses in attack, but is still too error prone. Far too error prone.

I'm not sure theres been a game where one of his errors hasn't directly lead to try, and i've watched all of them.

It was always going to take time, but if he wants to elevate himself into that upper tier, he needs to eliminate the defensive mistakes but also inject himself more in attack. The odd good pass and good run isn't enough for great players, he needs to be a constant menace.

He's dropped a bollok by firstly not going to union where he would have become a multi millionaire and secondly signing for a poor NRL side. He's either stupid or been badly advised or maybe both

When fit....

1. Tomkins
2. Fisiliah
3. Hurrell
4. Nielson
5. Vatuvei
6. Locke
7. Johnson

Probably one of the best backlines in world rugby and a big pack too. This NZ team isent poor, it will be right up there this year.

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