I understand the Sam Tomkins new contract makes him the most expensice SL player and on a par with many top Union boys

Quote: Juan Cornetto "I understand the Sam Tomkins new contract makes him the most expensice SL player and on a par with many top Union boys'" £300k per year, according to this: www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/no ... ur-nations If that's true, it's a big step up. I was initially worried that union would merely up the ante but I think they'd struggle to exceed this by much. After all, they've been losing their own players to french clubs for figures reputed to be in this ball park. Nonetheless, post-career prospects remain brighter with union and I think some players will continue to be enticed by the prospects of celebrity, regardless of salary.

Quote: Juan Cornetto "I understand the Sam Tomkins new contract makes him the most expensice SL player and on a par with many top Union boys'" £300k per year, according to this: www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/no ... ur-nations If that's true, it's a big step up. I was initially worried that union would merely up the ante but I think they'd struggle to exceed this by much. After all, they've been losing their own players to french clubs for figures reputed to be in this ball park. Nonetheless, post-career prospects remain brighter with union and I think some players will continue to be enticed by the prospects of celebrity, regardless of salary.

In 2018? Awesome, let's get him signed up now!

Agree, not sure how being on a massive wedge does for team spirit. And does take a good size chunk of cap space.

As sinfield said I think after 2009 GF. Most of our squad could get more money elsewhere, but choose not to for special memories like GF ( clearly he said it better than I but I think that's the gist of it

is he?

It would appear he is taking up very little, if any of it.

and this is exactly what Leeds breed into the players and thats the only type of player I want at Leeds.

Lets look at the ones that went because they wanted bigger money. Calderwood and Harris (altho Harris said it was for the international scene). Lets not forget what Sinny said at OT a few years ago about the players at Leeds could go anywhere and earn more but they wanted to play for Leeds and win things. Thats what we should be breeding into our youngsters, not greed and a quick buck.

Another thing that Leeds does is offer the players a life outside of RL. A lot of the squad do degree courses with Leeds Met and they fit it around their commitments to the club. I think thats a great positive for the players as once they leave us they have a qualification to go out into the working world and do what they want to do. Thats why I'm surprised we didnt try to snap up Tom Armstrong from Saints if he was any good. He only quit so he could go to Uni

And with 4 titles in the last 5 years, that idea is backed up by reality.

exactly! We dont want greater than thou players who turn up and cant be bothered just because they have a massive wedge in their pocket. theres probably a few players in the Leeds ranks that are on more than they deserve because of their success and thats how success should be rewarded.

If its like the last exemption it will be one player at Wigan, one at Saints and the rest can go spit

At 300k a season, is Sam Tomkins the new Iestyn Harris?

I'm sure there are Leeds players who could earn more elsewhere in terms of salary but prize money is exempt from the cap right? that would certainly help keep the players on board with the loyalty message that would otherwise be more advantageous to the owners than the players

No doubt sam is a good player regardless of if you like him or not but 300k is a large wedge of cap space for one player

so you think £300k per year is very little when the rest of the players have to share out the remaining £1.4 million?

But isn't this the whole point of the amendment to the salary cap rules?

IE: to make extra allowances for certain players which frees up salary cap funds which in turn can be used to pay top players to keep them in SL. So Wigan can now pay S. Tomkins what he is worth and still keep within the cap.