As soon as Sam Burgess started believing the hype that Russell Crowes people were putting out about him being this incredible unstoppable northern hemisphere warrior was the day he failed.

He would have done far better if he had led a similar life to Adrian Morley 10 years ago... just got out there, played the game and earned a reputation as a decent player not some whinging sooky mummys boy living with his mum and his brothers playing out their every move in front of TV cameras like some bizarre NRL version of the Osbournes.

OzWelsh & Kiwi Shane aka the RL Chuckle Brothers.

In fairness, Sam Burgess is getting into the habit of getting distracted from his natural game by trying to be a 'hard man'. Players are winding him up, and he's spending more time trying to get even, rather than doing what he does best.
When he focuses on his job, he is the best forward in the world, but he's becoming too easy to distract - he's trying to live up to an 'enforcer' reputation, but he needs to realise he's an enforcer doing his natural game , not trying to win personal battles.

Also, his over the top 'protection' of his brothers is becoming a touch embarrassing. Everytime one of them gets hit hard, he's coming in with the handbag swinging. George looked embarrassed by him the other day - George is big and tough enough to look after himself - he doesn't need or i would presume want Sam fighting his battles for him.

Nothin wrong with being a mummy's boy. The media stuff he's bn doin doesn't bother me, what does is missing training last September due to a media commitment apparently, and the way he seems to think he's the most important plyr on the team, he's far frm that, Inglis, Reynolds and Luke are far more important.

You can't blame sam burgess for media commitments, souths should stop him from doing it if they have an issue, rusty is loving Souths new membership numbers and you could attribute some of that to Sam Burgess and his family.

Inglis maybe be more important but the rest not a chance especially not Reynolds i haven't seen a more over hyped player than him. At the same time you could say Inglis massive salary is effecting the team from signing better back line players.