Sam Tomkins jokes Paul Wellens and other coaches lie in interviews

Sam Tomkins has had a brilliant career with Wigan Warriors and Catalans Dragons but it is set to conclude at the end of 2023.

Tomkins has worked with some of the best coaches in Super League history like Michael McGuire, Shaun Wane and Steve McNamara.

It shouldn’t be forgotten he has worked with St Helens boss Paul Wellens with England as well.

Even though Wellens and other coaches were wrapped up in his criticism of coach interviews as he called for the use of lie detectors.

“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 agreed: “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. And your lads. How’s pre-season gone? Fantastic. Lies. All the time.”

This came as Tomkins suggested that coaches like Wellens are lying when they pay credit to the struggling teams in the league:

“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.”

Meanwhile, Jenna Brooks suggested that lie detectors would make Man of the Match interviews more interesting:

“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.”