If they try to sign him in the next 3 years they will face quite a bit of legal bother.

Well played IL!

I can see him at Souths after the 2013 RLWC. Hope so.

Well done Wigan.

When his brother does what most players do and flops and comes back and gets battered Sam might realise the NRL is the place for him.

Good news!

Why don't you just say it and admit you're praying he goes. Never mind the loss he would be to RL in general.

When he does eventually leave us, hopefully it's to the NRL.

I hope he does stay. But the words he is coming out with suggest his aim is still Union in the long term.

This is great news. Tomkins is a proper star. Not a possible star, like Eastmond, or an overhyped star, like his brother Joel. He's the real deal. Very good news.

You could well be right but I reckon his long term aim is to secure his future financially. If he gets this from playing RL, I'm positive he'll stay and see out his career. If not he'll go and nobody could blame him.

Saturday finally confirmed what Wigan fans had known for a while. This lad is the real deal. He's not a flash in the pan or a flat track bully but is the first genuine world class back England has produced in a very long time.

We've had world class forwards like Morley, Farrell, Sculthorpe and Peacock but our backs have never been more then standard.

We've now got a back that can rightfully be placed alongside guys like Marshall, Thurston and Inglis. Only people with a real inferiority complex when it comes to England would deny that (well those plus the odd jealous non Wigan fan).

We've not got 3 years breathing space to produce some more, grow the game and convince this lad he's in the right place.

Great news for Wigan and RL in general.

I think this will happen,I can see Sam going to the NRL which is the lesser of two evils.

If he does go to the dark side we have worrying times for our game in the near future,hopefully this is not the case.

I think this is excellent news, not only for Wigan, but also for the game of RL in the UK as a whole.

Well in Sam, superb to see his comments today about only wanting to play for Wigan.

Can we cheer him at the KC at the weekend? Put your club bias behind you for once and support him.

Glad he's staying, think it's sad he gets so much hate, he's such a class player.

Sam's on 5Live now.