Sam Tomkins bizarrely calls for lie detector tests in Super League

Sam Tomkins has played in huge games for Wigan Warriors and Catalans Dragons against the likes of Leeds Rhinos, Warrington Wolves and St Helens.

He has don everything in the game including captaining his country.

A very smart rugby league player, Tomkins clearly has a broader understanding of the game as well with his comments on the salary cap in the past.

Now Tomkins has suggested a radical change to the way interviews are conducted in the sport.

“It’s lie detectors. Lie detectors on everyone that gets interviewed,” he said on The Bench.

“So if you, you know, after the post-game interview, and you’re speaking to a player and normally they just pay credit to the opposition, it has to be done with a lie detector sat down strapped to a chair with a finger on the little thing instead of having like the score in the bottom yeah just have like a red light or a I don’t know maybe they could get a shock an electric shocker.”

Jon Wilkin suggested that this would be great when it comes to pre-season interviews:

“And you can do it like pre-season. You know the best one is when you interview coaches at the end of pre-season, they go we’ve prepared really well. How’s pre-season gone? Fantastic. Lies. All the time.”

Whilst Tomkins suggested the use of a lie detector when asking players about their futures:

“So you know, when you ask Mitchell Pearce, have you got any news on your future next year? No, I’m still this… you keep lying until eventually you crack and tell the truth.

“It would be just going off all the time some yeah eventually people are go there’s no point lying. Tell me if you’re interviewing Paul Wellens they’re playing Wakefield next week and they go they’ve got threats right across the field.”

Jenna Brooks meanwhile suggested it would be funny with Man of the Match interviews:

“Also credit to the boys what are other boring cliches that we hear all the time.

“They don’t want to credit the other boys, they’re players of the match for a reason, they believe they should be, they’re with their middle around their neck.”