Sam Tomkins Comes Out of Retirement

[Cumbrian Fanatic]

Sam Tomkins is coming out of retirement to play the remainder of the 2024 season with Catalan

https://www.superleague.co.uk/article/4381/sam-tomkins-comes-out-of-retirement

[graveyard johnny]

29 minutes ago, Cumbrian Fanatic said:

Sam Tomkins is coming out of retirement to play the remainder of the 2024 season with Catalan

https://www.superleague.co.uk/article/4381/sam-tomkins-comes-out-of-retirement

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[Eddie]

Great, he was too good to retire. 

[del capo]

9 hours ago, Eddie said:

Great, he was too good to retire. 

He played for Wigan St Patricks in their Masters team last month. 

Has Masters become a new source for recruitment ?

[Gooleboy]

2 hours ago, del capo said:

He played for Wigan St Patricks in their Masters team last month. 

Has Masters become a new source for recruitment ?

Tell Richie Myler!

[del capo]

The Pats  held his registration on the RL players Register and following a telephone call from France they graciously agreed a free transfer for the Catalans to register him for SL !!

[chisholm]

Hope Sam payed his fee to play master's 

[Bedfordshire Bronco]

Not sure this is a good idea 

He may be cardio fit but the body needs time to acclimate to contact properly .....to do that in Super League seems risky

Muscles can strengthen in a few weeks of training....however ligaments,bones and tendons are different....thet will have reduced in size / strength with no contact since retiring .....and they take a lot longer than a few weeks to develop again 

Hope I'm wrong but I suspect he'll be injured fairly quickly .....unless he just avoids making heavy tackles 

[philipw]

6 hours ago, Bedfordshire Bronco said:

Not sure this is a good idea 

He may be cardio fit but the body needs time to acclimate to contact properly .....to do that in Super League seems risky

Muscles can strengthen in a few weeks of training....however ligaments,bones and tendons are different....thet will have reduced in size / strength with no contact since retiring .....and they take a lot longer than a few weeks to develop again 

Hope I'm wrong but I suspect he'll be injured fairly quickly .....unless he just avoids making heavy tackles 

As an exercise physiologist, I can’t tell you how wrong this is. Contact doesn’t impact ligament, bone or tendon formation or strength. Strength training, conditioning and increased training load, however, absolutely do. 

Edited July 21, 2024 by philipw