Nsembe has signed a new three year deal.

Elliot Whitehead leaving the Raiders, more fuel for the Smithies rumour

End of 2024

Hearing more and more people telling me Field is going to Catalans and Saturday will be his last game, really hope they are just regurgitating the previous rumour.

It's an easy thing to say when Tomkins is retiring.

Would be very strange the way Ian Lenegan was bigging him up at the 16 year gala awards other day, he said he was the most naturally gifted ball player he's seen at Wigan since Billy Boston! Which is massive raps for the lad..
Matty Peet also did the same post match saying once they outline a game plan "what can I tell him about rugby" he lets Jai run with it as he's got such a natural understanding. It's also been rubbished several times. Peet also said that no changes signing wise in the halves so doesn't add up as they have rubbished it several times. Obviously doesn't mean Cats haven't made an effort to sign him.

Hopefully there's nothing in it - it will be good when the 2024 squad is finalised to give us reassurance there are no more stings in the tail following our recruitment (outside of the Smithies move).

Hard to see any motive for Wigan to allow Field to move to a rival SL club whilst under contract. Plus Catalans really need to start incorporating more French players into the regular 17 - surely the Tomkins replacement should be Arthur Morgue.

Can anyone put the Field to Catalans rumour to bed please? Don't want to be thinking about that in Grand Final week!

On a more positive note, Rads did say that there may yet be one or two more signings.

But are they to replace departing players we dont yet know about

Smithies won't be a huge loss anyway...I've just read a Sky article with combined XIII prior to the Grand Final and both Barrie & Wilkin have Benjamin Garcia as their 13.

I believe that Catalan have made an approach but that doesn’t mean that he will definitively be going.
I certainly hope that he remains until the end of his career.

New sponsors supporting the OF deal?

But this makes me also think there could be 1 or 2 departures (Field and Smithies would be the sickeners, Powell and Shorrocks ones that you could accept)