Let's not go down the route of football fans by bigging up how much we got for a player. Truth is we as fans won't see a penny of it so I don't give a big steaming turd how much they paid for him.

Thank God that's all over, got royally sick of all the "will he won't he" talk that has been going on this year. Good luck Sam you were a joy to watch but a rugby league player only has a relatively short career so must make what he can when he can so you've probably set yourself up for a good life and can't begrudge you that. Be interesting to see if the media over there make as much fuss about him as they have over here and whether he will go to being a small fish in a big pond but I imagine he won't be bothered about that and we will survive ok, of that I have no doubts at all.
I may get panned for this but I don't think he has been half as effective against the better teams this year (when he's played that is!) so will be interesting to see how he goes in the NRL

haha do you seriously think 750k is going to make Lenegan any richer haha? Nobody on this forum will know what the money is spent on maybe new medical equipment? more scouts? improve training facilitates? training camps? improved equipment?

its funny how people think the directors at wigan somehow get rich from the club they will be lucky to make 50k profit.

he certainly wont get away with what he does here......they will be queuing a mile long to have a pop at him.....he will have to change his attitude pretty quick.

what do u mean like billy slater? get over it.

anybody watched the interview on the NZwarriors fans page? not sure what to make of it seems a tad disrespectful and shows he had signed the contract 4 months ago.

You do realise, don't you, that in financial terms British RL is a failing sport?

Good luck to any rich fella who thought he'd come along and pillage it. He'd be lucky to pocket the annual running costs for his motor.

Apart from his attacking brilliance Wigan have lost one of the few real leaders in the team and it is this quality that needs to be replaced as much as anything. I doubt we'll see him in the cherry and white again but I would love to see him return at the end of his career in the number 6 jersey and run the side. Moving to full back was successful in terms of trophies but I always regretted him leaving the stand off position.

Good luck to him he has been a great player for us and he's been an honour to watch him week in week out, some of the things he can do are freak like and the NRL will love him. Sadly I don't think we will see him in a Wigan shirt again, I think he will end up in union after a stint on the NRL.

Ultimately I can't blame him for wanting to go and test himself in the NRL but I do feel we should have held him to the third year if that deal he signed.

It's not to be though and we move on. I just hope the emotion of it all doesn't hinder him and the team this Friday (and hopefully the week after).

450,000 pounds says your wrong!

Where is that money going to go?

is it really that hard to understand that running a club cost money and the directors don't just pocket any transfer money we get? if Ian was in it for the money do you think we would have refurbished the Orrell training facilities, bought the wigan academy facilities or extended a partnership to south wales which costs the club money.

SAM TOMKINS DECIDED HE WANTED TO LEAVE WIGAN WHAT DO YOU EXPECT THE CLUB TO DO?!?!?