Sam has won player of the year for this just has he did in 2011 and 2012 I often wonder wonder was letting this player go just like others huge blunders by club

Listening to his podcast interviews it doesn’t sound like we had much choice. He’s the type of guy who needs change every so often and hand on heart if I was him and the chance to live, train and play in the South of France came up rather than Wigan I’d jump at the chance.

Shame he’s gone most definitely but he thoroughly deserves this award and he has to be nailed on MOS. Just has to be. Far and out the best player this season.

Supporters should be asking themselves why Sam Tomkins was so keen to leave Wigan so soon after coming back from down under.

Did he on his return, realise that things were not the same at the club following the departure of Wane and could see a situation of no success beginning to happen as a result of the financial situation which has led to a poorer standard and quality of the squad and made him decide that he needed to again get away from the club and obtain a better contract and lifestyle elsewhere.

Always has been a old head on young shoulders where his career and money is concerned, has Sam Tomkins!

I seem to remember hearing the French totally disregarded no-tampering deadlines and were on his case for a quite a while, offering all sorts, before he made his mind up to leave.

What are you going on about at all? We couldn't/wouldn't offer him as lucrative a contract as Catalans due to the tax breaks over there. I'll admit that I agreed with us not offering him silly money as at the time the decision was made he wasn't playing well and had a bad injury record.

Nobody knows but usually it's something to do with the gang of four

If you say so!

What are you on about, it has nothing to do with any gang of four.

Keep chasing the eggs, and hope they don't break!

Best player in super league history

By a mile. Best player I’ve ever seen....
That comes from a Rhino.....

Would be great if he decided to finish his career off here in a few years. You never know…

I agree re the south of France but the house he had on Lee's Lane was pretty nice as well (no, im not a stalker. I drove past on my home from work when he was selling it)

Well deserved POTY award also

Not necessarily anyone on here, but it's amusing to see some of our fans now congratulating him.

Those same fans played a role in him leaving. The cr@p he used to get via social etc from our own fans was ridiculous. Stuff like "he's not running the ball back", or "he's finished" etc. That's even before everyone going OTT because him and Joel got drunk one night too.

Imagine being a club where your own fans give you stick, the owners want to reduce your salary and they sack your own brother...

I said if at the time, but losing Sam was the biggest mistake the club could make. If any player was worth the biggest contract in the club's history it was a born winner like him.

Never gave anything less than his all. Even when he wasn’t on it he was (and still is) one of the best, if not the best in SL by a country mile. Even rival fans have to admit that. He was a tremendous loss to us and worth every penny we could muster to pay him

Correct

As for him leaving, returning

No way coukd Wigan financially match what Cstalans were offering, still offering, coupled with the tax advantages that exist not only whilst he plays there but for the years after he finishes playing that he will benefit from

(People can question what I'm saying etc, but along with the lifestyle benefit, the tax advantages not only currently but post playing are ridiculously good).