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Message: [QUOTE="Ari Gold, post: 2576343, member: 1917"] Tomkins will never carve up defences with his runs like he did in the ESL because the English teams are worse, but quite frankly, I don't think he needs to. He will, as Porthoz mentioned, still carve up lazy defences. But against the top teams I believe he will more than make up for it with his excellent decision making as the second man in attacking plays, the way Khunt used to be for us. I will say that I think he'd be a lot less valuable to every other team than the Warriors, but given the ingredients around him I believe he could well be the key piece of the puzzle. Again, you have SJ as first receiver on the right, Tomkins the second man with Hurrell and Fisiiahi outside of him. Running outside of SJ can create more room for SJ to go himself, and if it doesn't and the ball goes to Tomkins he can either run if he sees a hole or ball play for either a damaging Hurrell or cut him out for the flying Fish. You replace Tomkins in that link with Locke or Fish at fullback with Fusitia on the wing or frankly any other FB in the game outside of Hayne and you won't get the same threat. Him and SJ will cause havoc to every team's left edge defence this year. And whilst I don't have official stats, from my memory 10 tries have been scored so far by the Warriors right edge attack. Two were from kicks (Bukuya and Fish #4 on the weekend), all the rest were from passing movements and Tomkins was involved in at least 7 of them. [/QUOTE]

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