I respect your right to air your opinion but IMO you are totally wrong. We have to give the international game a bigger priority than that, surely?

Fair enough.

FWIW in every other sport I want the GB side / guy to win apart from the one I call 'my main sport'.

I personally don't want to stand side by side with the morons booing guys like Sam simply because he plays for Wigan. The let's all taunt each other for 11 months and then for 1 month pretend it didn't happen doesn't wash with me.

International rugby league needs to grow in order for our sport to expand as a whole. Players like Sam consider themselves England players first; club players second. We (the fans) tend to support club first, country second. A great number of fans who attend internationals find it hard supporting players from other clubs. The booing of Sam was ridiculous but just indicative of the way it is. IMO it's bang out of order and seems to have gotten worse since the Aussies stopped touring.

This club first attitude some fans spout around internationals really irks me. Does it even exist in other sports? It doesn't seem to in cricket, football or RU.

I've been watching since 1982 and if England (or GB) ever beat Australia when it counts I will seriously not care less if there are no Leeds players in the team. Mind you, I also wouldn't care if we beat Australia because their team suffered a bout of food poisoning on the day of the game. I'm at the point where I'll take anything going.

As for Tomkins, I hope he gets full fitness back.

Might seem a strange question and slightly off topic, but why are you so antagonistic to the country that presumably is supplying you with a living?

At the risk of replying on someone's behalf (& getting it wrong!), I would guess that he is sick & tired of the ribbing/p**s taking he gets from his co-workers/neighbours etc on the regular occurences of England's/GB's demise at their hands (at most sports) & would like the opportunity, at least once, of reciprocating

Apart from both codes of Rugby England/Britain are currently better at cricket, football, golf, tennis, athletics, motor racing and in fact coming from Yorkshire he would know that his great county famously won more medals than the entire country of Australia at the last Olympics. So I would have thought that he should be able to hold his own in the p*** taking stakes!!!

That's a bit like saying if you work as a prison guard you should appreciate a spell inside?

(Convict reference purely co-incidental).

No it isn't.

But you might think twice about slagging off the Home Office.

Nope, that's probably a contractual obligation. No such obligation exists between your place of work and your feelings about the country it happens to be in.

If you get a job in Leeds will you start feeling all warm about the Rhinos?