Could that not have been if Carmont had to come off, leaving Phelps and Bailey as the only fit players in the 17 who could play Centre?

Yeah that makes more sense

The thing is, you just wouldn't put it past us to do something like that!

This your first week watching the game, then?

Excellent!!

Great News!!!!!!

Now for IL to give him the platform from which he can show his talents!

A pack consisting of 2 'No nonsense, Rough Tough Ba$tard' props who make the hard yards.
Plus

A Top Quality halfback partner.

Anyone think this is the 1st big step in IL's often mentioned "Long term planning"

Either way its a great step in the club protecting its most promising youngster in years.

Very good news.

We need to do all we can to formulate a monster pack now to make the most of his talents.

great news from the club [for a change

This is superb news.

He has an unbelieavable desire to win does Sam.

One of the most pleasing sights on Sunday wasnt Richards racing away in the last minute, or Phil Bailey scoring a couple of tries - It was the two sides of Sam Tomkins.

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When he scored his try, the delight on his face was there for all to see, jumped in the air to celebrate.

When he kicked that out on the full, watch it again if youve recorded it and watch the despair on his face. Immediatly his head is in his hands and hes apologising and using a couple of choice words to describe his kick to himself.

Both of these show he is a winner and he wants to wear that Wigan shirt, and add that to his talent and he'll do fine for me.

Fantastic news.

Sam has undoubtedly been the best thing to happen to Wigan this season by some distance. He has come into a struggling team and more than held his own and been better than we all could of expected.

He's got all the attributes to be a world class player and long term I see him as our number 7 for a very long time.

The best thing about him for me is his attitude. Very calm, level headed lad who would bleed cherry and white. Got the potential to go down as a true Wigan great

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Dropping the 'Warriors' tag and playing 'Entry of the Gladiators' as the teams come out !!!!!!!!!..................we can only dream

I was very impressed with Tomkins at Craven Park on sunday. Out played both Dobson and Cooke and ran the show. Very good prospect, in fact I'd say the better of two good young players when put alongside Richie Myler.

Does anybody now where this will rank Sam in the way of earnings, does this new contract make him one of the say top 5 earners, or is it like a sliding scale increasing each year.

I doubt he will be on six figures. I would imagine it would increase year on year.

Doesn't really matter. Given our squad and who is out on loan he is bound to be one of the top 25 earners as I think we only have something like 27 players named as the 1st team squad and its the top 25 earners of them who count. There are more junior players then him in that 27.

As the is an extension of his current deal it also depends if they have decided to pay him more than he was due until his original contract was due to expire (2011 I think).

Dave

Great news for Wigan, he's no Richie Myler but that can't be helped but it's a sign that you're willing to stcik with him, who do you see alongside him? I think he need's a runner ala Pryce, Maguire, Jeffries that type of player.

As good as he's been i'd be very suprised of it puts him in the top 5 bracket just yet.

I'd guess he's got a decent increase but the sliding scale with him working his way up in terms of salary year on year is more likely i'd say.

Maybe something dependant on appearences.

I love these backhanded compliments.

We didn't need to 'stick with him'. What we needed to do was get him signed up quick, before being dragged into the sort of frenzied auction that will take Myler away from Salford (and quite possibly will take him away from you as well).

It gets better every day, this board. A Wire fan doing condescending. I've seen it all now.

It is true then, you can't have a sensible chat about RL with 99% of Wigan fans, no wonder your fans are the joke of rlfans. I try and talk sensibly and just get grief..shocking, I notice none of you answered my question. I expect sensible people like Nickykiss or ABP to give a reasonable answer.