Better than Hall but not by much. Pretty underwhelming signing for me, but the lad has ambition and wants to use thismove to get him into the England squad.

Another poor signing by a poor management running (ruining) a great club.

Another overhyped player due to the fact he is from that there Landan town.

Very average IMO. Darrell Goulding out paced him with considerable ease when we played Harlequins away this season.

Whose Joel Tompkins?

On a serious note, I am not concerned about Joel Tomkins possibly moving to the NRL. I can believe there is interest in him, but I don't believe he would consider leaving Wigan after establishing himself as not only a first team player, but a part of the leadership group and a cert for the England RL side.

But as others have said, I would happily sign him up for five years.

A cert to everyone BUT the england coach apparently.

Joel wouldn't want to take a backward step and join an ex-club of Trent Barrett, or meet up with both the Tim Smith's he knew last year..............

He weren't at the England training session due to him being at a disciplinery I think

He won't leave whilst Madge is here but once Madge leaves for Aus don't be shocked if he talks guys like Joel and Sam into coming with him. ATEOTD he'd be stupid not to at least try it wouldn't he.

Lets face it if Wigan keep improving at our current rate under Madge he'll defo get an NRL head coaches gig. He's already shown with Finch, Lima & Hoffman that he likes to sign players he's worked with in the past and if he moves to one of the bottom basement clubs he's gonna be looking for guys he can build a team around and trust.