The word down here is that 2 clubs have offered money for Tomkins. (.5 million AD) Wigan turned it down originally wanting 1 million. It was announced on the offload show on MMM radio yesterday that Wigan have said .75 million AD and Tomkins can go. It was said he will playing NRL next year, at least 2 clubs willing to spend.

I'd rather he goes to the NRL than Union.

Good news whatever Tomkins decides to do with his career whether it be in the NRL or Rugby Union. He's gotta get out of Super League otherwise he'll just end up stagnating and going nowhere.

You'd be the expert of stagnating and going nowhere of course.

Me too but would be very surprised if he stayed in league.

Would love to see him at Souths.

What? In place of Inglis?







Oh, hang on.... you were thinking of having him replace the captain John Sutton?

No and No.

So he would replace scrum half Adam Reynolds there?







Oh hang on...you want Tomkins to be 18th man.

The two clubs most likely to be after Sam Tomkins are the two clubs who were pursuing Josh Dugan: Brisbane and St. George-Ilawarra.

I think he will choose a Sydney based club for the life style and having the other UK players around.

Tomkins could get in Souths side.

Either Inglis moves back into the centres where were weak or Sutton moves into the back row.

He has to do it, and far better than going to RU. Its a shame for SL, not because its unique - players have always gone - but that now, and for the foreseeable future, the traffic in the highest talent is more or less one-way.

Slightly OT, but the standard of living is better in Brisbane than Sydney by a mile. Sydney's horrible.

I could understand if you'd have said Melbourne or Perth, but Brisbane?

Inglis is devastating at full back. Madge hs no reason to move Inglis. It would be crazy. That is why the thought of buying Tomkins to play full back is a huge laugh.

Souths current centres are good enough, and who knows, maybe Matt King will recover from his injury and play in the centres this year.

They won't move Sutton to the back row because (a) he is playing very very well at five eighth and (b) Souths have abundant top quality back row forwards.

By contrast St George-Illawarra are desperate for a full back (why else would they pursue the undisciplined drunk Dugan?) and Brisbane definitely wants one. If Tomkins went to Brisbane he would almost certainly be in a playoff qualifying team.

You know better than most of us mate, but I heard Brisbane about a month ago were after him.

Roosters if $BW leaves, knights if Tinkler stays solvent or Broncos though they rarely splash big cash for an"import".

Panthers or Parra would be favourites but who wants to live in west Sydney?

Bollocks! lol





Can't agree with that. Brisbane is ok but it's A little boring and has no beaches(not Sydney beaches). Saying that I was at our Brisbane office in Milton the other week and found an awesome tap house called The Scratch. Love that pub.

I will!

jeff pwnage here!

Some parts of Sydney are great especially if you have a lot more than a million dollars and can afford the Eastern Suburbs or the Beaches, most can not and live in the West or South West.
Brisbane is a good sized City that is not a sprawling giant like Sydney.
It may not have Sydneys beaches but most City Beaches like Bondi are horribly over crowded and over rated.

Brisbane has the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast either side of it.

Perth is by far best, I can afford to live a 5 minute walk from the beach and we have the best weather in the whole country for outdoors. Shame it's so bloody far from anywhere!

I'm 167 steps to the sand. Perth is a goer. Brisbane? Full of aussie s tbh.



Tomkins will go wherever he wants.

Spotted George Burgess in a moon boot yesterday. A precautionary measure apparently. His brother Tom has shed lots of weight and had a few issued with ball retention tbh. ie he knocked on about 3 or 4 times.

At Brisbane Tomkins will have his fellow countryman Jack Reed.

At St George-Illawarra he will be just the Lonely Pom.


Where Tomkins will not be in demand:

Melbourne: Billy Slater
Canterbury: Ben Barba + Sam Perrett
South Sydney: Greg Inglis
North Queensland: Matt Bowen
Manly: Brett Stewart
Canberra: Reece Robinson
Parramatta: Jarryd Hayne
Sydney Roosters: Roger Tuivasa-Sheck
Newcastle: Darius Boyd
New Zealand Warriors: Kevin Locke


That leaves as Tomkins possibilities, apart from Brisbane and St. George-Illawarra, Wests Tigers, Penrith, Gold Coast, Cronulla

Brisbane > Sydney