Yea cos obviously if Tompkins had scored a try a game down under or ranked high on the Dally M table then he still would have come back to you

Just like Joe Burgess and Lee Mossop, its nothing to do with them failing, they are just homesick. Wigan must be brilliant!

How's that training ground of yours this year?

Just like Segayaro loved playing for Leeds and was always committed to staying...

Why was he a failure?

Take your Tomkins hating glasses off for one second and answer that question honestly. I know Leeds fans hate him with a passion, as indicated whilst booing him when he was wearing an England jersey but can you explain why he was a failure?

Well he certainly didn't succeed did he?
His first season was full of defensive errors and little attacking threat.
In his second season he was injured half the time and poor the other half.
He also didn't make the playoffs either season.
The only success on his part was convincing a team to pay him around 1 mill a year to be a below average fullback (by NRL standards).

BTW I was at that game at headingly, and there were plenty of people in Wakey Cas and Hull shirts booing him too.

Pre season optimism doesn't half make people brave!

Leedsnsouths plucking up the courage to come back on here proves that. It's good to have him/her and their crazy one eyed views back!

[quote="leedsnsouths"]Well he certainly didn't succeed did he?
His first season was full of defensive errors and little attacking threat.
In his second season he was injured half the time and poor the other half.
He also didn't make the playoffs either season.
The only success on his part was convincing a team to pay him around 1 mill a year to be a below average fullback (by NRL standards).

BTW I was at that game at headingly, and there were plenty of people in Wakey Cas and Hull shirts booing him too.[/quote]


We have to remember that Yorkshire is well known for its sheep, if one goes Ba,aa they all go Ba,aa.

I will respond

1. First few games yes of course in a much tougher league against much bigger men he struggled to adapt, naturally. Attacking threat is because he was told to play that way. They didn't want the 'Off the cuff' rugby he was used to. And rightly so i suppose. Australia is a much more drilled game than ours. Indeed i was told by somebody close to Sam that Jarryd Hayne scored a try past him and made him look a fool and you can see Hayne shouting something at him. I can confirm those words were "You're in my world now Tomkins"

2. That point is utter bull. Yes he was injured for a while but was one of the Warriors best player approaching the latter half of the season by a mile.

3. He didn't make the play offs. That must mean because NZ Warriors didn't make the play offs he is crap. Must be all his fault. Can i remind you that Leeds didn't finish in the play offs either so by you analysis, Watkins, Hall, Briscoe, Ward etc are all rubbish.

4. Your last point doesn't stand up and you can't measure it by any proof.

I can only assume, given the sudden appearance on here of Leeds fans, that they've won a couple of pre-season fixtures.

they have been able to train this year........