Good luck Joel. Hopefully he'll do well and have a good career. Maybe come back to us one day...

Nice to hear Sam confirming his commitment; just hope it lasts.

Wonder what this partnership rubbish is all about?

Exactly, divide it by half and you would be much closer.

You are bang on kenny, these jedwards might as well go and watch RU

His rumoured wages in Union have increased and increased on this site, five times the £80,000 he is on now is a ridicules statement and far from the truth.

Okay just for you......."Significantly more"

Well the opening first sentences of rlTHISrl to me says he is a hypocryte. I will find what you request though as I dont like to pluck things out of thin air to suit my arguement

Well it's not just for me it's the truth!

I don't know what his rumoured wage is in Union, but for the sake of this argument lets' say it's £160K (twice as much as his rumoured wage here). Couple that with the £15/£20K they get per England performance plus personal endorsements and the freebies that go with playing International RU. It's safe to say that 'if' he's a success he 'could' be earning around £300Kpa as is the rumoured annual income of Chris Ashton.

Spot on. He obviously has no idea how much money the taxman takes if he thinks Joel would be anywhere near a millionaire after 12 years at £80k p.a., even if he lived on bread and water and stayed at his mum and dad's house!!!

Sam Tomkins, Ian lenagan and Ryan Hall all live on 5live tonight, 10pm.

This crass and frankly ridiculous statement does Joel Tomkins no favours.

The fans don't need patronising, false platitudes!

There is nothing 'special' about a nomadic, soulless club with a hardcore support of less than 6000 fans which loses £3 million per annum!

Lenagan wasnt on, apparenlty he didnt answer the phone

Hes on approx 80k at Wigan, times that by 5, 300k. He will be easily earning that a year.

80k times 5 is not 300k, it's 400k. Please stop simply pulling figures out of your ass.

Joel Tomkins salary for next season was significantly (eg 50% for the benefit of those who do not understand what this means) hiher than £80k and it would have continued to rise for the remainder of his 5(sic) year contract that he had signed last year.

How people believe he was going to be paid £80k next season is amazing. If people believe this then I would like to see how they imagine Wigan's wage structure was to work next season to get to salary cap level.