What injury did he have? I assume one of the cruciates but he did play on with the rupture for some time.

His attack has suffered but his defence is immense since leaving for NRL.

Different player to the one that left

You would use the word immense to describe Tomkins defensively? I think he has improved from being woeful before he left, to being slightly below average defensively now.

As others have mentioned he will have to move into the halves sooner rather than later because he is a passenger at times in games, and a team like Wigan cannot afford that if they want to win trophies.

Tompkins hype was over after the semi final V Leeds before he went to Oz. That day, Leeds took a leaf out of our playbook and hit him with bomb after bomb. Tompkins got rattled, had a lousy game and from the point on "how to play Tompkins" was know right across the rugby playing world.

I would hardly call his defence as being immense,Far from it tbh
For 2 weeks running he has misjudged grubber kicks through that he should have diffused with ease but he didn't and tries were conceded as a result

Sam sadly looks a pale shadow of the player that left our competition as a super star