Wigan Warriors • OFFICIAL - Burgess leaves club

I can’t see it, he’s not retired and very much seems to be seeing it as a year out to try and get sorted and then weight up a comeback for 2022. It seems to be a case of the club and him coming to an agreement that allows him to get an operation and spend many months of rehabilitation away from the squad and probably back home in Australia before assessing the situation well down the track.

He probably had two options-

1-get his full salary from Wigan, have the op, stay in England, face criticism for not being fit for the whole of 2021 and do his rehab here in the cold.

or

2-take a percentage of his salary as a lump sum, get the op and head back to Oz to be around his family and try and get his body in to a position where he can consider a comeback next year.

Looking at the lives people are leading in Oz at the minute, I can see why option 2 would be a winner!!