For personal reasons?



Off to RU then, Saracens with the Wigan legend Faz?

Yup.

must be, the Sun says so...

[urlhttp://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/rugby_league/3862257/Joel-Tomkins-ready-to-quit-rugby-league.html[/url

Looks fairly nailed on now although it's not on that he's able to simply tear up a 5 year contract on a whim.



The big concern of course is that Sam will follow.

Hope its not true and if it is. The last thing I'd want is for Sam to follow. But who would blame him. I certainly wouldn't.

Thought they were wigan through and through!! you could blame them hes under contract long term

Well I said I'd wait for something official looking before believing it and now I do.



We must get some good money in for him and we must spend it on transfer fees to strengthen the squad.



The RFL must also let us offer Sam a new deal with a good portion of it nit counting on the cap.

he'll no doubt be one of the next [i'4 year plans'[/i for the RFU ready for the next RU World Cup, good luck to the lad & hope it brings him everything he expects.

Its a strange one,



A worrying trend of young players making the move early in their careers,



Ashton, Eastmond now Tomkins

If true, extremely dissapointed. Signs a long term contract, states in the media he has no intention of leaving Wigan for Union, then could possibly be buggering off barely into his 5 year deal.

This confirms to me that Joel will be on his way to Union and its wishful thinking to think he has pulled out because of the treatment Sam received in the Exiles game.



I hope we are getting a big transfer fee for this to get him out of his 5 year contract!

You are the one Wigan supporter I can trust to have a fair view of the game etc but your last comment - you cannot be serious???