Wonder if his hairdresser knows she won't need to do his highlights for 3 years.

Good luck to him, has been an excellent servant to the club and I ope we do all we can to get him back at the end of his 3 years

It sounds as though he was determined to go and try his hand in the NRL, so there's little you could do to stop his departure. What intrigues me is how you'll replace him or, probably won't. With the ever increasing NRL salary cap, plus the strong dollar to pound exchange rate tempting the very best NRL players to SL is getting increasingly difficult. Particularly when they'll also have to give up their representative career and SOO football to come over here.

As for Graham it will make him a better player IMO. Playing in competitive games week in week out won't do anything other than. I know Sam Tomkins only just signed a new 5 year deal last year, but come the end of that when he will be truly in his prime. I'd fully support him if it was his wish to play in the NRL. By then he'll have given Wigan many good years of service, just like Graham has for you guy's.

I'm surprised he doesn't want to be there for Saints' opening season at the new venue.

Only 26 in September, I honestly thought Graham would have postponed it for another year.

Let's hope his best mate Roby doesn't follow him eh ?

Luckily Roby is signed up for another 4 years.

He will be a great ambassador for SL. I hope he tears the Aussies to shreads.

Shame to see him go but it was always going to happen. Hopefully we can look forward to having an announcement of a replacement soon.

great player,I know I have given him stick in the past,but every one know's that sort of thing is veiled praise ,admiration,respect even,only great player's get that treatment.
You saints fans will be gutted,but wish him all the best.I hope your loss will be GB/ENGLANDS gain.
all the best Jammer from an admiring Loiner

Let's hope he can inspire everybody around him to go out on a high this year. Go BRM!

i might have a trouser accident if we got him! there were rumours we were after him last year, whats his contract situation?

I think he will have more of an impact there than he has in SL. He is made for the NRL. Great engine and everything he does is top notch, just gets his head down makes the hard yards mean defence and I think he will get spelled a bit more, which will only be good for his game.

So sorry to see him go.
They are going have to spray tan him in factor 1000 before each game.

I hope he hates it over there and becomes incredibly homesick for the saints. You never know................

Graham will do it in the right mannor though and if its possible put more effort in than he already has been doing. Like Royce said he wishes he could pick St Helens up and put them in the NRL but unfortunately he cant, good luck to him.

Like it! Poore = Good

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As a Wigan fan i'm dissapointed,

Chris Joynt, Paul Sculthorpe, Sean Long, Kieran Cunningham now James Graham

These players are the reason i can't stand St. Helens! I'm afraid you may become....barable.

Ah well still got Wilkin to keep my blood boilin!!!

All the best Jammer - a definite legend.

I really hope the lads play for him in 2011 - he deserves another SL ring.

Laffranchi and Waterhouse are second rowers, so I wouldn't call them Graham replacements as the article seems to suggest.

Gutted, but wish Graham all the very best. Hopefully he'll cement his position as the best Prop in the game, and then return in 3 years time.

When asked on Boots'n'All tonight about whether he would come back in the future, he sounded very, very hesitent! I think he's going for good.

It's only on at 8, isn't it?

I doubt he'd say, yep, I'll be back in 3 years. Wouldn't look good for the new employers, but I'd like to see him play one more season over here before he called it quits.

No, it was on at 6. It'll be on at 8 as well, and probably 10.

Apart from speaking to James Graham, though, it's basically the tries show. A real cheap effort.

Ah right okay, well I've got nothing better to do at 8pm on a Wednesday night so might as well give it a watch.

I'm not sure they would be bothered, given that he has signed for three years and he would be talking about in three years' time.

Anyway, we may not miss him as much as we think or for very long. We may not want him back when he's 32 with dodgy knees!