Quote ="Owdpopularsider"Just Id thought Id share my correspondence with the club with all boys and girls.. Owdpop..... So IL has a few questions to answer.... 1. Tomkins signed a 5year deal in Nov 2011 that stopped him SPEAKING to ANY club for 3 years. In Sept 2013 he has SIGNED for NZ Warriors. How and why has the happened?? 2. Why have you announced this 4 days before the most important game if the year?? 3. What do you propose to do with the reported £1M the club has made in transfer fees this year?? Wigan Warriors.... the first 2 can be answered from todays press conference; 1. Wigan accepted a world record transfer bid from NZ Warriors and gave the club permission to talk to the player. 2. Both deals were finalised last week, so it was right that the fans were informed before Sams last home game. 3. Remains to be seen Owd Pop....... 1. This then shows the Wigan club to be very weak IMO. To have fans believe back in Nov 2011 that SAMs not going anywhere for at least 3 years and then to let him go after 20 months is taking the proverbials out of the paying fans. 2. So the club has now created the 'Sam is leaving circus' before Fridays game. When all the fans should be concentrating is on backing the side onto victory. I couldn't care less about waving good bye to a player that doesn't honour his commitments to my club. 3. Well it would be nice to know. Wigan Warriors.... The transfer bid could have come at any time and it was up to the Club whether or not to accept it. Due to the figures suggested, the offer was obviously too good to turn down. Read the link below for more details on the deal; www.wiganwarriors.com/WContent.a ... 674&type=1 Thanks, Admin Owdpop... I appreciate the replies I really do. The reasons you give for the sale leaves me extremely worried about my club and the sport in the UK. It seems any bid for our players that seem too good will now be accepted. This hardly leaves fans wanting to buy season tickets for next year does it. Why sell your prize asset when we still have a salary cap in place? It's not as if we can just go around splashing the cash is it?? The reason given by IL for the sale gave the perception that Sam was the main driver and he was desperate to leave, whilst your answer suggest otherwise. It's all rather sad for the fans of our once great club. So IL was the main driving force behind the deal not Sam as he was the first port of call. It remain to be seen what happens with all that lovely money...'" So the deal was initiated by WIGAN not Sam................? Not what IL says in the official statement. "When we realised that Sam was not able to be persuaded to stay a further year at Wigan - having won 2 Challenge Cups, 2 League Leaders Shields and 1 Grand Final, with the chance shortly of that being 2, together with Man-of-Steel and Junior Player of the Year Awards - we have had an open dialogue with him about New Zealand Warriors" So which is it?

Quote ="Owdpopularsider"Just Id thought Id share my correspondence with the club with all boys and girls.. Owdpop..... So IL has a few questions to answer.... 1. Tomkins signed a 5year deal in Nov 2011 that stopped him SPEAKING to ANY club for 3 years. In Sept 2013 he has SIGNED for NZ Warriors. How and why has the happened?? 2. Why have you announced this 4 days before the most important game if the year?? 3. What do you propose to do with the reported £1M the club has made in transfer fees this year?? Wigan Warriors.... the first 2 can be answered from todays press conference; 1. Wigan accepted a world record transfer bid from NZ Warriors and gave the club permission to talk to the player. 2. Both deals were finalised last week, so it was right that the fans were informed before Sams last home game. 3. Remains to be seen Owd Pop....... 1. This then shows the Wigan club to be very weak IMO. To have fans believe back in Nov 2011 that SAMs not going anywhere for at least 3 years and then to let him go after 20 months is taking the proverbials out of the paying fans. 2. So the club has now created the 'Sam is leaving circus' before Fridays game. When all the fans should be concentrating is on backing the side onto victory. I couldn't care less about waving good bye to a player that doesn't honour his commitments to my club. 3. Well it would be nice to know. Wigan Warriors.... The transfer bid could have come at any time and it was up to the Club whether or not to accept it. Due to the figures suggested, the offer was obviously too good to turn down. Read the link below for more details on the deal; www.wiganwarriors.com/WContent.a ... 674&type=1 Thanks, Admin Owdpop... I appreciate the replies I really do. The reasons you give for the sale leaves me extremely worried about my club and the sport in the UK. It seems any bid for our players that seem too good will now be accepted. This hardly leaves fans wanting to buy season tickets for next year does it. Why sell your prize asset when we still have a salary cap in place? It's not as if we can just go around splashing the cash is it?? The reason given by IL for the sale gave the perception that Sam was the main driver and he was desperate to leave, whilst your answer suggest otherwise. It's all rather sad for the fans of our once great club. So IL was the main driving force behind the deal not Sam as he was the first port of call. It remain to be seen what happens with all that lovely money...'" So the deal was initiated by WIGAN not Sam................? Not what IL says in the official statement. "When we realised that Sam was not able to be persuaded to stay a further year at Wigan - having won 2 Challenge Cups, 2 League Leaders Shields and 1 Grand Final, with the chance shortly of that being 2, together with Man-of-Steel and Junior Player of the Year Awards - we have had an open dialogue with him about New Zealand Warriors" So which is it?

If it was about me, I'm sorry I missed it!!!

If Sam had of stayed it wouldn't have stopped the moaners from moaning or the clappers from clapping. There is a lot of frustration in our game and you can't blame Sam and the Moose for wanting to go over to Oz for a decent wage and pitting their talents against tougher competition. I do genuinely believe IL is the best thing to happy to Wigan for a long time and he's fighting on all fronts and he doesn't have to do it, he can quit at any time but he loves the club. When the economic climate improves and the opportunities arise, that money will pay dividends for the club not IL

And that fellow Wigan fans is that.
Well said that man.
Happy -

Should that not be "carry on with the clap?"

As opposed to "Carry on with the usual claptrap"?