Most teams take the P out of Tomkins.

(some) Leeds fans merely insert one.

I'm surprises this thread made it to 5 pages.

All valid points, Some sense on a ridiculous thread.

Following this childish train of thought I assume all non Leeds fans wanted to boycot England games for the actions of Lee SMith who stood on the advertising boardings pleasuring himself after Leeds won last years semi.

No, didn't think so.

Absolutely pathetic reaction from some hypocritical Leeds fans. The incident seems to have wound them up but the Leeds players are hardly angels are they? I assume you are mostly adults but you need to grow up Leeds fans and stop crying about it. Are you offended by Sam Tomkins actions? Are you offended?

Im not sure im that offended, but we are talking about the image of the game nationally, this could affect the wider audiance as it was on national TV, I think you are missing the point, st made a gesture, also JT made a gesture although it is uncertain as to what the jt gesture was, this type of thing has no place in the game.

There is a difference to celebrating a try and being abusive to opposition fans ! on national tv, this was a calculated action from a player who just cant help himself ! rant over.

Tomkins is a horrible, nasty little toe rag, but on playing merit he deserves to be picked. Would the Aussies drop a player from St George because the fans of Manly didn't like him.

Although never playing for GB, Lee Briers stuck the finger up at Wigan fans... as did Eastmond to his own set of fans.


Away from the BBC coverage, how did any Leeds fans see it anyway? none were there!

Hysteria about Tomkins aside, if players having a go at the refs is a problem its up to the refs themselves to do something about it - start with sin bins and then send them off.

RL internationals are a joke in part because far too many fans only care about their clubs.

That is one fantastic "bite your nose off to spite your face" dummy spit. Congratulations!

We lost the final and an opposition player is annoying, lets try to ruin the sport we love!

Then again, it would probably be a better atmosphere without the Leeds fans booing England players, so feel free to stay away and watch it on TV mucker.

Was there a match on Saturday?
Judging by the reaction everywhere, people are more concerned about someone puting the V's up.
The publicity generated by this has started grabbing headlines in the South. Shame it took this act rather than the final itself to generate publicity down there, but you know what they say - Theres no such thing as bad publicity.

And what about the abuse of the match officials ?

Well, actually I got the idea from your players ... Who didn't seem to want to compete when wearing a national jersey, by virtue that they were sharing the same dressing room with half the Leeds team that had turning them over in the Grand Final.

Always a giveaway that there's trouble at t'mill, when the RFL put out a press statement that there's no squad disunity problems with the national team.

I'd have my work cut out to match the Saints players, who were boycotting the national side whilst they were still actually playing in it ....