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That's his career over.

More: www.saracens.com/news/view.php?Id=6615 And Sam Tomkins becomes the highest paid player in Rugby League according to The Sun and a few other people.

More: www.saracens.com/news/view.php?Id=6615 And Sam Tomkins becomes the highest paid player in Rugby League according to The Sun and a few other people.

More interesting is the official partnership between the clubs. Saracens and Wigan have obviously hit it off so well they are going to be official bed-partners.

Is that just code for 'We've got first dibs on Sam Tomkins after the 4N'?

Quote ="Wigg'n"More: www.saracens.com/news/view.php?Id=6615 And Sam Tomkins becomes the highest paid player in Rugby League according to The Sun and a few other people.'" Do we want such close links with the union game? Are Wigan a feeder club for Saracens now? Seriously though, I'm not sure what the benefits to our game are.

Quote ="Wigg'n"More: www.saracens.com/news/view.php?Id=6615 And Sam Tomkins becomes the highest paid player in Rugby League according to The Sun and a few other people.'" Do we want such close links with the union game? Are Wigan a feeder club for Saracens now? Seriously though, I'm not sure what the benefits to our game are.

The press release by Wigan will probably confirm more. Doesn't seem the best of moves for now though, but IL is shrewd and wouldn't do anything that doesn't benefit Wigan at all.

Will there be a candle-lit vigil in Wiggin tonight? Perhaps a sleep-in outside Red Hall, a la St Paul's?

My guess is that initially it'll be about feeding Wiganers who don't make the Wigan RL grade to Saracens. That would rob the RL game of lots of players - think of some of the Wiganers who have starred in SL and not been wanted / signed by Wigan. Later it will about training on each others patch and Saracens enticing top players. What will Wigan get out of it? Maybe the chance to put their replica shirt in the Saracens club shop - might sell 3 per year. A fair price for destabilising the whole of RL?

Ian Lenagan will look after Ian Lenagan first, last and always mate.

On a more positive note, maybe its about feeding players to Saracens with a view to them starting an RL club? Mr Wray may have noticed the number of people who attended Wembley on Saturday from the SE and decided they could tap into that market with an RL club sharing facilities with the RU club?

Or just beginning.

But his bank balance will have increased significantly.

Surely not, given Harlequins failed miserably just a couple of months ago?

Wigan fans should be up in arms about this. The club should be bombarded with phone calls asking for a personal explanation from Leneghan. It's unquestionable that this will benefit Saracens. Better access to arguably one of the best RL production lines. They'll be able to identify the stars even earlier than they can now and have access to tapping them up through the masquerade of them 'exchanging knowledge'.

What do Wigan get out of it exactly?

Fair enough. Quins fans do know him pretty well after all.

A shed load of cash, and 2 free tickets to Sarries' first home game.

He'll be back in a couple of years.

Wigan by the looks of things are turning into the new Arsenal by developing young players with potential and then selling them off to the highest bidder in Union.

There has been no mention of any money exchanging hands?
All Wigan are getting out of this is a friendly that the Wigan public have to pay for?

Wigan get a £250k fee and somewhere to play the odd game when WAFC dont want the pitch spoiled.

The satements from Joel and Ian are pathetic, why can't Joel just say its the money.

Wer have read that figure mo cos iv'e not seen it mentioned yet?

Where does it say Wigan get £250k?

More importantly, who would actually want to pay 250k for Joel Tomkins? They'd be lucky to get 100k from another RL team for him!

I'll tell you something for nothing. Whenever someone feels the need to use the word "synergy" in a statement; they're feeding you bull.

Synergy just means they could not stop him crossing codes or Sam would have kicked a stink up too? maybe losing both