Wigan Warriors - wiganrugbyfans.com • Re: Rumours and signings v9
NickyKiss wrote:
I don’t think it’s baffling at all that we don’t want to take the one year option. He’s on a fortune (highest paid player in the league apparantly) and up until this season we’ve had nothing like value for money. What would be baffling would be us not having put a new deal on the table over an extended period but on a reduced wage. I’m pretty sure we must’ve done that but my guess is Catalans have blown it out of the park and fair play to them.
One seasons worth of Tomkins on a fortune (to then see him walk away anyway) will hopefully turn out to have been trumped by new deals for Bateman and Gildart in addition to a new signing to take Tomkins place.
So what if he's on a fortune? He counts £75K on the salary cap so there is no reason signing him should prevent the club re-signing other players unless it now lacks the ambition to assemble the best squad possible it can within SL and simply isn't prepared to pay for it. Which I suspect is the case. He's harder to replace than Bateman and Gildart. This mythical new signing you mention how, much is he going to be on? Less than Sam? Well then you can expect get a lesser player. Same as Sam? Then that is a sideways move.
Wigan being outbid for one of its best players by a bottom dwelling SL side is pretty pathetic.
Statistics: Posted by DaveO — Thu Apr 26, 2018 11:22 pm