What a cracker!

He did the same at Hudds last week so they should have seen it coming!

The tackle from Lockers on the end of it was even better.



Glad the nonsensical criticism of SOL has stopped on here, cracking player who'd run through walls for Wigan. Hope he's England's 13 later this year and would be amazed if he isn't.

I sat at the game and at the moment Lockers put that hit in thought 'thats why he's a better international player then Sinfield'.



He hits hard, he's physical and has a great engine. His game is perfectly suited to the international game and i'd be suprised if Smith doesn't select him for the 4 nations.



We missed him(and Burgess) in the World cup.

Lockers has had a very, very good season.



Prior to this, I think most of us recognised that he was a good player, but many of the questionmarks were against his captaincy. Whenever he played for England or GB, seemingly without the added pressure of the captaincy, he played well.



This year he's settled more into the captain role, presumably because he's maturing. I guess whether he retains it will depend on whoever the new coach is. But personally I'd be quite happy for him to continue as captain now.

As the years roll by and Lockers becomes more and more one of the elder statesmen of the team he'll find it easier to captain the side. It can't have been easy for him at times trying to lead the likes of Fielden, Barrett and Bailey who've been there and done that and he's tended to stand away a touch and let them take the lead but with 2 of those 3 not in the side(for different reasons) now he looks alot more comfortable.



The youngsters like Sam, Joel, Prescott, McIlorum and co obviously look upto him and will hopefully become leaders in their own rights to help him out.

No doubt about that.

He hit an absolute monster in the World Cup and turned the whole Tongan backline round.

Now that he's calmed the high tackles down (which was a bit of a problem) Lockers is one of the very best tacklers in SL. That hit last night was absolutely top drawer, but even more important than the big hits is the sheer volume of work he gets through in defence. He's showing real signs of becoming the kind of defensive machine at LF that Phil Clarke was in his prime.



When you add to that defensive quality and contribution Locker's short kicks, which can be very dangerous (as we saw last night) and the fact that he chips in his fair share of tries Lockers is easily the best LF we have in this country.



I'm proud to say that I've never been a Lockers knocker and its great to see a Saints fan giving a Wigan captain respect, RL fans generally (not just Saints fans) are too parochial, when it comes our stars we all need to talk up the international players if our game is ever going to get the media attention it deserves.

it wasn't even that far

We have a chance of matching the aussies in the pack this time with Lockers and Burgess.

The problem is in the backs. They are in a different galaxy.