So scrap the cap and pay Joel Tomkins £400k. You then surely have to give Mossop £300k, Charnley £250k and so on. Even the for a wealthy club like Wigan, I suspect money would soon become the problem, rather than the cap.

Unless something dramatic happens (much more dramatic than raising or binning the salary cap), we've either got to put up with the likes of Eastmond and Tomkins being cherry-picked and or learn to love line-outs.
Tbf, we spent decades taking players from Union.
The one consolation is that the NRL is becoming an alternative, so players have a good option for staying in our sport, if not our League.

shaun wane just said in an interview on SSN that both tomkins are very happy at wigan. Maybe this has all been blown out of the water a little bit?

Not really. He's not going to say "They've both desperate to leave such a Mickey Mouse sport and go somewhere better, but we've just not got round to agreeing the compensation package for them yet" is he?

Tomkins pulled out of the 4Nations to focus on agreeing his Union deal. It might fall down yet if Wigan can't agree on the compensation package, but it's clear there are discussions going on about it.

What? Sam and Logan?

I hope you are right mate,don't want to see talented players leaving the game no matter what club they play for,even you guys.

He's not the messiah



and neither is his brother for that matter.

Get a grip FFS

Was that the point? I must have missed it

Try replacing the name Tomkins - with Charmley, Lomax, Gaskell, Hardacre, Briscoe. Get a grip FFS!

Ian Lenagan doesn't seem to be worried about it.

I've got to admit, I was extremely worried that Joel and Sam may be leaving us but Ian's responses have assured me a bit

What has Ian Lenegan said?

Nothing as far as I'm aware.

I know justarugbyfan will know something, he's a right moocher like that!

superleague.co.uk/article/tomkin ... ague/23782

superleague.co.uk/article/tomkin ... ague/23782

Maybe I'm reading too much into it but, he doesn't seem very confident he'll stay in RL.

It's the type of article you could 'read into' as much as you wanted.

Games dead at club level non existant at international level,can't blame any player wanting to leave

The tennis player and his mob have sucessfully killed our game.

The union boys will be laughing into there pims

He is clearly stating he wants to go and it's in the pipeline. I can't wait to boo him in the internationals.

Wouldn't expect anything else from you. You typify what being a RL fan is all about at the minute.

Hope you enjoyed your fifth grand final defeat in a row.

"Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"

It's to be hoped none of the union lads leave too much money in their wallets because ASBO Tomkins will have a field day in the dressing rooms. Good riddance to the slack nacker.

Wow! After reading this, what is the point of rugby league, we might as well all go over to union!

bit over dramatic dude!

What a rediculous thing to say. How is it dead?

There were only 69,000 people at Old Trafford and Leigh have gone bust.

It's comments like this that make you wonder "why do some people watch RL?"
Do we just attract cynics? Or do they come over as normal people and we turn them cynical? Either way, it's probably the most unattractive part of being a RL fan listening to the constant rubbish coming from these boring people. I think as a game we need to come up with an intervention to change the attitude of the fans. Word of mouth is one of your biggest advertising streams.

the games dead.....gutted..... quick someone tell Mr Moran to stop expanding the HJ.

I thought your user name was ironic but now I suspect that you hear voices in your head

Joel Tomkins played in front of 78,000 fans at Wembley this year... I’m pretty sure he isn’t going because the club game is dead, it probably has more to do with the stupid amount of money somebody is offering him to play a game that he is unproven at

While the cash reportedly offered to Tomkins is stupid, he would be even more stupid to turn it down