Nah it's defo £700k. Wigan have said it's a "Wigan-record transfer fee", and the fee for Fielden was £450k.

News here says we're paying him NZ $750,000 a year in wages. That's about 325k in pounds.

As an individual he'll pay NZ$240,000 in Tax on that......Auckland's not the cheapest city on the planet, but he should be able to get by on NZ$10,000 a week after tax



Jury's still out on whether we needed him and he's not joining a particularly happy camp at present....
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Given that Tomkins' options would have included big money to go to RU, this move is the best option for the sport.

As for Bowen, he's looked a shadow of his former self at times this year, and apparently basically does almost no training between games due to his knees being wrecked. He can still be a devastating player on attack though.

spot on!

Bowen is bloody good on Bullseye though

Stay in the black and out of the red......oh, hang on, you're a Bradford fan!

It's A$1.2M, which = 700K pounds.

Bowen will be a good pickup, if only as a mentor for Wigan's young players. Assume Locke will end up at Canterbury

Rumor is Locke is going to the dogs replacing Babar, Bowen is still very good and will do a job for us over here his style of play will fit in very well and give Hampshire another season to take the step up

It's actually £390k in current market rates.

For comparison, the "cashed up" French RU leagues tenth highest earner, Matt Giteau, the seasoned RU international, is on the equivalent of NZ $780,000 per season.

This is a great deal for Sam and out strips anything he could have got elsewhere - unless the french really are that mad that they would have offered him the same as Giteau, having never played Union before!!

According to Radio 4 this morning

Ian Lenegan said the figure was "in excess" of £500

I should think so as well

Bowen has been playing great during the playoffs, he's lost some pace but his ball playing is the best I have seen from him this year.

Good signings and deals all around. Warriors. needed a big name to push on with crowds, especially if they move to the new stadium.