www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/leag ... 1mzyl.html Personally i'd rather him become a household name in England, and a legend at Wigan, but i'd rather him go to the NRL than waste him talent in Yawnion. Also Chris Ashton was on talksport saying he misses league and hopes he can come back one day. I turned it off when his wierd hybrid Wigan-Toff accent started grating.

www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/leag ... 1mzyl.html Personally i'd rather him become a household name in England, and a legend at Wigan, but i'd rather him go to the NRL than waste him talent in Yawnion. Also Chris Ashton was on talksport saying he misses league and hopes he can come back one day. I turned it off when his wierd hybrid Wigan-Toff accent started grating.

Tomkins is doing himself no favours and all these blatantly set-up press releases are really starting to get annoying.

You can tell that behind the scenes Wigan are beavering away on getting the RFL/SL to increase the salary cap or give them a dispensation or central funding to keep Tomkins. All this blatantly deliberate press rumour mongering is just the padding for their case.

I hope the RFL tell them where to go. Wigan could keep Tomkins, they could keep them both if they didn't sign players like Carmont, Finch, Lauaki, Leuleuai and Richards. That way Sam wouldn't need to continually tweet about his trips to London to meet Unionites for 'dinner'.

My word, you do un 'alf lose perspective when you talk about Wigan!

Publicity is terrible for our game isn't it

For the last bloody time it's Maguire not McGuire.

Rant over, I'd rather him play NRL than Union but I'd obviously like any talent to be kept in SL

One of a few in SL that'd cut it in the NRL.

The little brat would get his bottom slapped good style in the NRL

Sam Tomkins has clearly got the skill set to play in the NRL, but his temperament would have to change, as his opponents wouldn't put up with it in Australia.

All green eyed monsters post in here please.

I think you'd find he'd fit in just right with successful, ultra competitive footballers.

Will be interesting to see him play against an Australian defence now he's been identified as a spot player by them. The aussies will be out to stiffle him / sort him out. Let's see if the aussie break their defensive line when he's running round the back.

If he was going to leave Wigan then hopefully it will be for the NRL. Much rather he went there than to Union.

It'll be interesting to see if the Aussie taget him with high kicks to try to destroy his confidence (like Bradford once did to a so called world's best FB)! I suspect not, I think it'll be via short kicks to get repeat sets. They'll want to stifle us, like they're brilliant at, if they are taking this one seriously.

I am sure in the past they have said they will be marking him very closely.

Of course they'll have a close eye on him and a plan to stop him. The one thing Sam's got that you can't plan for is pace and acceleration.

They'll plan for him, he's our most dangerous player. I expect someone to try to get a big hit on him early on in the hope it'll put him off, but from what I've seen of him it won't bother him mentally.

He could obviously cut it in the NRL. He's one of the best players around at the moment. Obviously there are a lot of high-quality fullbacks over there - Slater, Boyd, Gidley, etc - but it'll be good to see him up against these sorts of players week in week out.
However, it's always a shame to see any talented player leave SL.

Rather he stayed in the sport than moved to Union, though.

yeah right o matey. As if they aren't.

I am sure the team are.
The coverage in Australia in the media in general is pretty basic as I am sure you can see.
I doubt many Aussies are getting up at 1:15 or 2:15 am to watch it.
The fact Channel Nine is only showing the games Australia play in is not good for the game.
No replays next day on free to air.
I guess the feeling is the season is over and fans have moved on.

I'll be getting up. Just hope I can get some sleep before and after it, before I go to work at 8:30am.

Its 10pm here now I will be hanging in for another 5 hours.

Yeah, can't wait for you and the RFL's business plan for League to come to fruition. What is it again? Oh, yes we have to wait around paying peanuts until Wakefield catch up and we have a completely even competition. When's it happening? Any time now, just around the corner?

Might I suggest that the clowns at the RFL and the bigger clowns that defend them are the reason Wembley looked like that today.

Fair to say Sam proved a few wrong on here today. He's more than adequate of making it in the NRL.

An awful lot of syllables to use up when the word "cheats" does the job just as well.

Without doubt.

Swap Sam and Slater round and let him have the easy street of playing for the Aussies and then we'd see some fireworks.

Yes, that would clearly demonstrate that Slater is an inferior player. (in some alternative reality).