I have not seen the game but your trolling.

When has Tomkins ever been a winger and secondly of course his not up to international rugby union, his never played the game before. What did you expect? You thought he was gonna been MOM and blow everyone else on the pitch away.

I wasnt in favour of him playing in this but I think your being way to harsh and basically hating on the kid.

Not too different to way plenty of Union fans for ages tried to criticise and ignore the ability of SBW until they saw him offloading for fun and then started waxing lyrical as they dont see much of that in there game.

I didn't watch the game. However, Tomkins is a Fullback/Stand Off in League, meaning that he would never be at his best when shoved out on the wing, especially against a good side like Aus and it only being his first game, although the article on the BBC about the game said that he played well.

Judging by the scoreline the entire Barbarians team was outclassed.

Worst trolling attempt ever

On the strength of that game, it's quite damning that most of the players are "up to international rugby union".

Admittedly I have only just seen the highlights, but some of the defensive attempts by the Baa-Baas were laughable, one thing that always strikes me when I watch union is that some of the players' technique is horrible, going in with heads the wrong side just asking to be knocked out.

Apart from being generally incapable of passing accurately, offloading,catching or tackling the Barbarians didn't look that bad to me. At least Tomkins didn't give them any cause to denigrate RL. Must have been the easiest money he's ever made playing rugby.

www.skysports.com/rugbyunion/mat ... _1,00.html "When I came in on Tuesday I was so raw I didn't even know what the numbers for each position were," said Tomkins. "The boys were saying 'we'll play this off the 12 or the 10' and I didn't even know where those blokes were so that was a bit of a challenge. "There are so many differences between league and union. I understand it a little bit more now. "Where I am from people don't know what rugby union is and I am glad I have had the chance to play but I am still a rugby league player. "The try was a good way to finish it off but we didn't manage to get much going."

www.skysports.com/rugbyunion/mat ... _1,00.html "When I came in on Tuesday I was so raw I didn't even know what the numbers for each position were," said Tomkins. "The boys were saying 'we'll play this off the 12 or the 10' and I didn't even know where those blokes were so that was a bit of a challenge. "There are so many differences between league and union. I understand it a little bit more now. "Where I am from people don't know what rugby union is and I am glad I have had the chance to play but I am still a rugby league player. "The try was a good way to finish it off but we didn't manage to get much going."

I haven't seen the game, but I got a text off a Yawnion-bumming mate simply saying, "Tomkins is having a f****** nightmare"

all in all the barbarians was terrible falling off tackles not passing accurate 5 meters away to say it was hes first game your mate is talking bull.

i would say watch the game for your self but it was terrible. any one have the numbers on miss tackles, incomplete passes, knock ons and forward passes? to be fair sam soar the ball a few times but the passes were either behind him, at hes feet or he was cleaning up a loose ball. the only time they put a couple of decent passes together he scored. he had the chance to stop one try but to be fair it was a big forward and he looked very uninterested at that point. got iscolated once early on and he looked nervous at backing him self. really he could of scored 3 trys.

any rugby union fan who says they are better atheletes or even more skillfull they are a first grade nutter.

one thing union commentators are very good at is ignoring the obvious, it was crap and unskill full but they never made a real negative comment where as eddie and stevo would be moaning about it till 2017.

You should patent this and make bumper stickers, you'd sell thousands.