Confirmed: Tomkins will be mostly useless all year.
Might as well ship him off to England early if he's not looking more comfortable within six weeks? At least playing Tui gives him more experience at NRL level.
There is no doubt about the impact Pomkins has on the team and I was gutted when no-one protected him when the bombs were hoisted.
When someone like him is in the team talking and encouraging the others everyone lifts their game.
He re-injured his knee early in the game but showed real grit to fight through the pain and play the full eighty.
As great a player that Manners is he can never lift a team like this little Pommie upstart.