If Sir Sam wins us the world cup and stays in Rugby League he can have my vote

If Sir Sam played in a team of English players for England then he (and they) would have my support too, however whilst we continue to pick the likes of Chase for England I hope they get slaughtered in the World Cup.



Just my opinion, but to me it would seem a very hollow victory to win the World Cup by using non-English players.

You know I feel exactly the same when the Aussies win the cup with all those kiwi's and south sea islanders in the team.

Don't worry it will never happen

I'm quite looking forward to him getting a hammering from the Aussies under the watchfull eye of an unbiased Aussie ref. Then he can sod off to Union.

There does seem to have developed in SL an unspoken rule that you shouldn't really tackle Sam and that if you do, you must be careful; once you've executed a careful tackle, you must instantly teleport out of the ruck and back to your feet, without impeding his wildly flailing arms and legs in any way whatsoever - if you do, you will be penalised and if you aren't penalised straight away, a committee of his colleagues will wave their arms until you are.



Meanwhile, if you don't obey any of the above rules to Sam's satisfaction, he'll lash out and kick you (a la Mathers yesterday) and not a single official will see anything.



An outstanding and gifted player, with a decidedly grubby attitude towards his opponents.

Other than his attitude he has one massive fault in his game. Remember the test match at Elland Road and how he bottled the high ball. Well he did the same yesterday I am suprised we didn't feed him any more after his shocking effort and I suprised other teams don't do the same to him.

and to cap it all, Tautai has been issued with a formal warning by the RFL for making dangerous contact with Tomkins - he must have dared to touch him

You mean from the type of tackle Wigan execute every single week, and have been doing so for going on four years?!

Is that the tackle where he went for the legs but followed through with the tackle? I thought this was allowed as we see it day in day out.



The only time it's not ok is when a player doesn't follow through the tackle. Or have the rules changed again?

Who knows especially after what happened last night. Gardner runs the ball out at speed and trips just before impact his head hits chest and forearm of tackler and tackler gets done for head high shot. How the hell the tackler could have avoided that I don't know.

Spot on. I really don't advocate violence in the game but if ever Tomkins gets a good smack on the nose it would be pay back for all the times he's used his arms and legs illegally.

A brilliant player who really likes to wind up opposing players but cannot take it himself.