For those arguing that he could get injured. Should we tell him he can't play for England RL in the future because he could get injured and that it means he's not focused on Wigan RL. LENEGHAN OUT!!!!....

Jason Robinson was the captain of a league winning Sale side, won both the six nations and world cup with England so you can't really use him in your argument as he would have been on a fortune in Union. Offiah on the other hand agent/pundit and wasn't he on the ice skating show? I wouldn't say he was sorted for life through money earned from Rugby League.

Yeah right

Wigan and Sam are swimming with sharks

Rugby League player represents his country in the sport he's CONTRACTED to, I'm happy with that as all rugby league players and fans should also be committed to their country.

Rugby League player represents a sport he isn't CONTRACTED to in an irrelevant friendly, lack of commitment to rugby league and you can't argue other wise.

blah blah blah

I'm not interested in forming an argument, I remember only too well the money being handed out to players by uncle jack. Offiah's rolling in money and taking easy pickings. You're upset about the issue and I can respect that, personally I can't see it's worth getting knickers in a twist about and no-one bleating about RU being some kind of big bully and Sam being a naughty little boy will alter that.

What disappoints me is that in the new contract Sam had signed, I'd hoped we'd found a way to fend off the Union Sharks, and that it could be a model for new contracts offered to all our other top players to keep them in RL.

But already we've got a development like this, which indicates that Union is simply not leaving us alone.

It's very disheartening.

On saturday he might attract a new fan club the french rugby union

The only solution may be to adopt your club's policy - and develop no players that anyone is interested in.

come off it, Everyone is simply moaning because of a pure hatred for Rugby Union, and nothing else. I dislike Union just as much as anyone else. But he is still a Wigan player and will be regardless of what happens at the weekend, and if he wants to play in a one of yawnion match then let him. He could fail miserably and union will want to come no where near him, or he could play brilliantly, show Union that a league player can just walk into union in a one off game and tear a team to peices, then continue playing for wigan with even more Rugby supporters, be it union or league, following him.

Lack of commitment to Rugby League??? In what way?? What Rugby League event is he missing out on to play in this one off match, You're just upset because he is going playing a sport that you don't like and have something against. And therefore that means he is disrespecting the sport that he has played all his life???



If he just so happened to be a good footballer and was going playing a one off footy match we would of had no where near the reaction that we are getting here.

I just can't see what we gain from this bizarre little arrangement.

Very, very strange.

I hope he plays for them and tears it up. The Barbarians will probably include him a lot more than the current England team did.

Sam is probably the only player that if he did go to Union I would start watching the sport as he has the potential to run rings around them.

Will he be wearing Cherry and White socks when play for them? Or will it just be white England socks?

Wonga!

Yeah we never do that.

I reply with Iestyn Harris to you the other week.

You didn't answer back.

Talking of Harris didn't he do this as well, want to play union in the off season when he was contracted with us. Alex Murphy was our Director of Rugby and lets say he was not accommodating to the arrangement!

That was the beginning of the end of the relationship between Harris and Murphy.

Its disgraceful that Wigan have done this, the fans are still reeling that we lost Joel to RU and now we go and let our top player go and guest for them.
Mr Leneghan you should be ashamed

I think the timing of this is awful, weeks after Joel decided to wakl away from Wigan and only a day after Sam had an awful game for his country in League.

Also, i cannot see what Wigan will gain from this deal apart from the obvious financial one.

well said.

Yeah. There's always an exception if you go back far enough into the past.

Great publicity for Wigan, great publicity for Rugby League, great publicity for Sam Tomkins.

Everyone's a winner, dont understand what the fuss is about myself.

Would you get the fuss if he gets injured?

That'd be great publicity for us.

Me neither - what's the upside??

I THOUGHT Sam was NOT alowed to speak to union.

about a contract?

Leneghan is a business man first and foremost, he will be getting compensated massively for this.

Sam will be leaving in 3 years, Wigan RL will carry on without him. Some people need to get used to this, I hope he has a blinding performance on Saturday!