It's a shame that the Welsh R.U supporting guys we spoke to in Cardiff could only say "good riddance to the big poof"

Real credit to the guy, great interview, great man.

Someone I look upto and admire alot, great bloke and a great asset to the game, if only he played league a few years sooner..

Thomas' performances are amazing when you consider the guy is two years older than Keith Senior. If he had played RL his whole career he could have been Inglis-like. Such a shame when talent is wasted in RU.

I thought he was here for one last payday, but massive credit to him he's come to league at his age and tried his best, put 100% in every time he's played for Crusaders. Certainly proved me wrong, like some have already said pitty he didn't switch earlier could have been a great player.

spot on, shame he didnt come earlier

and what hes saying is true good to hear an ex union guy say it

there is no hiding on a RL field

survival of the fittest, not survival of fattest

Agreed, that whole segment of the BBC presentation was superb from the interview with Rourke to the post match chat with a battered looking Thomas and Noble admitting that Danny DeVito would probably be the ideal actor to portray himself in the film.

And the common denominator is Clare Balding, she is just so enthusiastic about the game that its unbelievable, she obviously has a huge crush on Gareth Thomas as she never stops talking about him (for understandable reasons), even mentioning his tattoos when she caught a glimpse of him without a shirt on in the dressing room, but she also gets on really well with Brian Noble and Robbie Paul - such a shame that they don't get to present more than half a dozen games a season because they could all be great ambassadors for the sport on terrestrial TV,

All the more reason the RFL should be helping the crusaders cherry pick the very best 16 year old Welsh RU players.

I work with a bloke who also works for the RFU. He refers to him the same.

Nice eh?

I think if Thomas had come into league earlier he might have been a 2nd rower with the size of him.

thats typical from them though

Pathetic isn't it.

It is!

Regards

Castleford

Do the handful of pathetic Cas fans work for the governing body of the national sport? Because tigertots colleague does.

That's brilliant but we could open the film up with fifteen to twenty minutes of the unacceptable face of RU i.e. some of the poofs comments referred to on here and how ethnic minorities rarely get a shot in RU. That could create a truly life affirming piece where 'majority' society rejects Thomas because of his sexuality and league is shown to be the all embracing sport it is. Obviously we'd have to not refer to Australian RL during it though.