Great news, going to be a few nervous moments though when he gets back on the field regards his shoulder, let's hope this second op has fixed it.

Bateman is world class. Since when did a club turn away a world class player? Wigan might have some decent back row forwards but if you can sign one who is better than those you have, why would you not?

I was right about Bateman coming back.Hastings is going home at the end of the season

John Davidson saying Wigan have got bateman on a bargain salary, less than he was on a Canberra.

Might not be marquee money. As someone has said we normally mention in the press release if someone’s signed a marquee contract.

The fact we got £200k for him and he’s back after 2 years. One in which he’s got his shoulder fixed.

If his shoulder is fine this is genius from IL.

That's incredible if so. Hats off to IL and Rads.

Still disappointed with them extending Clubb's contract but all of our other business recently has been top drawer (G. Burgess still TBD).

He’s on just over 200k a year which is still a lot but it’s less than he was on at Canberra. Him and Burgess are the marquees for next year because we don’t know what Hastings is doing yet, although he’s not Marquee anyway

rumour from oz is that hes on double that

The Aussie press quote ridiculous salaries. There will only be a couple of people who know for sure what he’s on but I think we can be pretty sure Wigan can’t have been able to offer him £400,000 a season.

I think it's a default mechanism - when a player wants to come to England it has to be about money.

I know his agent is getting a bit of stick but I imagine JB didn't want to consider another year away from his daughter unless it was so financially lucrative it would be silly not to. His agent would have explored whether such a deal was possible elsewhere and when it became clear that it wasnt then I imagine the decision was a relatively easy one.

I do however hope the signing doesnt cause problems down the road regarding pay cuts for the existing roster.

His agents suspended isn’t he?

It's suppose to be a 4 year deal worth $2 million aussie dollars whatever that equates to

He's free to work as he has appealed the suspension

approx 280k

They would give a figure in Australian Dollars, 400k equates to £223k per year.

A year ???????
If true crazy money.
I assume with his signature Isa goes to the bench at best? We cannot have Bateman, Isa and Farrell as our back three.
I'm in a very small minority but Bateman as a marquee player? Nah.
He'd better learn to come off his right foot otherwise you can put me on the wing. Incapable of of passing to his right and probably will remain the same until he retires

He's a decent lad but never in a million years is he worth
£280k.
Good luck to him but he probably sums up our limitations as a sport.
He never was and he ain't the Messiah as some suggest.
A good nuggety player who gives 100% but not your top earner in my book.

It will be interesting to see how his shoulder holds up in the remainder of the current season.