Why did you have to bring that up again

Anyway, he ain't stole the crown jewels, stole anyones daughter or bummed a cat (not that know of anyway)!. Get his wrist slapped and move on until the next non story happens.

Wigan fans want consistency - how serious an injury should Tomkins receive?

If he was good looking, had some charisma and wasnt a complete dick he would be the perfect poster boy for RL. Even his petulance and childish behaviour like this would be excused.

But he has the unfortunate correlation of both looking like a scratty little kid who would have his tracksuit bottoms tucked into his socks and coming across like he has the personality of table with a persecution complex.

Sam Tomkins could have been RL's David Beckham, he is unfortunately closer to RL's Phil Neville.

Congratulations to the rugby gods on another job well done.

With a name like Grego you would probably do best to be careful when joking about injuries and such obtained during the course of Rugby League being deserved.

Some broken fore fingers would do for starters.

Unfortunately, however good he is at rugby, he has the brain of a piece of seaweed.
Doing it is bad enough, but denying it when it's so blatent is unbelievable.

agreed

Victory sign, what's wrong with that?

Since when did we start injuring players for swearing... unless you're trying to equate a player hurting himself during foul play with it or something, in which case had Tomkins broken his fingers trying to swear, that too would have had more than a hint of poetic justice.

If you don't refer to the McGuire incident I'm sorry but the comment was lost on me.

If you can't take it don't give it out. Trotting out the 'family game' stuff when the lad gets all kinds of abuse from the terraces is laughable, family game when it suits. A nothing incident that is being blown up out of all proportion.

Good point, I personaly think he could deal with the abuse in a clever way with some witty comment or by just playing harder & better. I would be unhappy with any action against him untill the hundreds of morons at all clubs who think it is normal to hurl vitriol & spite at players are got rid of as well. Maybe he could bring charges against the next person in the crowd who swears at him? now that would start somthing.

The Wigan fans lack the intelligence to realise why he's hated. He acts with no class at all and is an embarassment.

What does he gain from acting like that?

The truth with Tomkins is that he's not able to cope with the abuse he's getting. He cannot channel it well and it is affecting him. It might be a relatively minor incident but it's one that further downgrades how the public perceive him. He has guaranteed that he will be booed when he next plays for England next and he is backing himself into a corner with all these acts of utter petulance. And he's got no one to blame either, it's his own fault people will abuse him.

It doesn't seem to be affecting him that badly as he adds another medal to his collection. Why should he care what those on the terraces think about him and why should he not be able to give a bit back? It seems that those who are most upset by his behaviour are those that try and provoke him in the first place and I would suggest it is them who have the problem not Tomkins.

Because one side pays their money, the other is paid their money.

Tomkins would do well to remember he is a paid representative of the game, and his behaviour will be judged so. If Tomkins cant behave in a way befitting a professional player he will be punished for his transgressions (though in proportion to his offence, 1 game and £500 is probably about right in this case)