He has backed himself and chosen the Warriors for various reasons, one being they were the only team prepared to pay the transfer fee.

The Ball is in his court.

Lots of good players make mistakes, its just how often they make them or how unsure of themselves they appear.

Tomkins had never had a good defensive game IMO in every Test match I have seen him play he is always just a bit late to save the try coming in over the top or being used as a mat.

As the best player from England in a generation, I am not sure he can fall back on too many excuses.

Well you said players in the NRL, that suggests current players not Kevin Ward etc.

Tom and Luke Burgess are just average club players, Tom has hardly played much first grade.



There have been plenty of instances of Australian players taking the money offered by English Clubs as the main motivator.

Money does influence people I am sure you would agree.



Back in the day where Brett Kenny was accused of deliberately throwing a ball over the side line because he wanted his season finished so he could go home.

Even a stand out player like Jamie Lyon that left his MOS award in the rented house that St Helens provided to him when he left.



How many players have cried off and gone home because of "family issues" LOTS



As far as English players that have been standouts in Australia? I can recall around 6 or 8 at most and that is going back for the last 10 years.





Morley

Ellis

Sam Burgess

George Burgess

Graham

Carney



I am scratching past that.



The ones that didn't do so well

Scott Moore

Worrincy

Richie Mathers

Tansey

Thorman

Mark Flanagan

Its hard to remember the players that fail to make grade and disappear.

Worrincy was barely an SL player. Moore, Thorman weren't big SL players, not really setting the world alight.



Mathers was a decent youngster who did pretty well before a terrible injury. Tansey wasnt even first choice at Leeds when he went and was a well known drinker.

Some of the posts on here are one-eyed to say the least.



At Wigan, he played in the most disciplines and well drilled sides in world RL as the player who finished set moves, scoring a hat full.



That's what NZW signed him for. However, he's being used as a second pivot on either side outside Townsend on the left (who's atrocious) and Johnson on the right (who couldn't stick to a set move if his life depended on it).



Basically, the side he's playing in and the role he's being asked to do are totally different to his days at Wigan.



Some people really want to see him fail, which is quite sad, and it clouds their judgement. Yeh, he's made mistakes in defence, but in attack he's simply not being afforded the opportunity to have the impact he did at Wigan.

When he signed I said that he'd be back in two years with his tail between his legs, and I've seen nothing yet to change my mind. In his last season with Wigan he was looking increasingly ineffective as rival coaches cottoned on as to how to deal with him.

What? There's a lot of Warriors fans out there who'd disagree.



Plenty of Warriors players have looked great this year. You're talking out of your ass.

In your opinion!



I beg to differ!

You talk complete rubbish. Hurrell was never in very poor form. The only reason for his dropping and for fan support of said dropping is because Cappy was holding players to account on effort and KPIs. Something fans embraced because a lack of discipline has been a hot topic for the club for a long, long time. He was one of the Warriors most potent attacking threats when he was dropped - one of the comps form , even. So much so that the Aussie media and opposition fans assumed he was up for sale, that form wasn't the reason behind his stint in the reserves and there was something more going on.



Sad to say it but if Tomkins was held to the same standard he wouldn't be playing against the Panthers next week, he'd be dropped too.



Johnson has gone up a gear this year. No idea what you're talking about. Huge improvements on defence and has been helped in attack by Tomkins presence.

It's my opinion that a lot of Warriors fans have a view contrary to your own? Okay.



You clearly don't know what you're talking about.

That's just your opinion, don't try and recruit "a lot of Warriors fans" to validate what you think!



I think you're wrong!

Yes. He is absolutely awful. We're sorry for inflicting him on you. Please send him back. I'm certain that no other SL club would want such an embarrassment. I reckon we could help out there.

And you with your ratbag opinions of Matulino, Hurrell, Johnson et al are in a minority of one.