No its not. There was no "months notice" built into Joel's contract and I certainly would not expect my employer to get £250K compensation if I left my job. People really need to stop posting this nonsense that a sporting contract is the same as working for a company.

Could this be England RU team in a few years time Edwards Head Coach Farrell defence coach a back line of FB -?

W. Eastmond C. Thornley and Tomkins W. Ashton

HB.- Farrell and Ford (george)

RL is sport thats trying to grow and they all no this and therefore if being treated fairly money wise it should be there duty to help to spread the sport as much as possible and them going to union is like joining the germans. If we offered a public school england union player a good salary to come to wigan they would not entertain it i dont think because they dont like the game with your attitude towards this how did lockyer, Johns, Thurston, Slater, C Smith, B Marshall, Sculthorpe,Radlinski, Cunningham,sinfield,burrows, maguire etc etc all stay at there clubs so long i will tell you because they love Rugby League and they have been treat fairly same as sam is being treated fairly so that leaves no reason to leave unless you dont like RL that much and you think RU is a great game.

Do you reckon Andy Farrell, Jason Robinson and Shaun Edwards didn't like RL then? And going back to my original question - have you ever changed jobs?

Add to that when people change jobs they more often than not go to rival companies from my experience anyway.

Quote Broxy Music="Broxy Music"£100,000-plus-a-year centre but we don't want to do that' Well said IL. www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyu ... acens.html? Apologies if this has been put on here. '" nice quote at the bottom "Good move, lad. Upgrading from Economy to Business Class. It's a game where you have to use your brain a lot more. But i also believe a lot of Rugby players would benefit from playing 1 year of league so it might be a good idea for some crossover. " - T0sser! I want to know whats in this linkup for us, or are we just a feeder club for a mediocre Yawnion club now? Id much rather be a feeder club for the NRL

Quote Broxy Music="Broxy Music"£100,000-plus-a-year centre but we don't want to do that' Well said IL. www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyu ... acens.html? Apologies if this has been put on here. '" nice quote at the bottom "Good move, lad. Upgrading from Economy to Business Class. It's a game where you have to use your brain a lot more. But i also believe a lot of Rugby players would benefit from playing 1 year of league so it might be a good idea for some crossover. " - T0sser! I want to know whats in this linkup for us, or are we just a feeder club for a mediocre Yawnion club now? Id much rather be a feeder club for the NRL

Fans have to realise the social change which has occurred in this country, i can imagine many of Joels friends have gone to University or moved across the country, meeting new people from different backgrounds and experiencing new cultures. As Sam has said, it is not the right time for him to move, but ultimately one day he will want to leave Wigan, the town he has lived in the majority of his life, and its difficult to begrudge someone that opportunity. However i do agree that having signed a 5 year deal, and then sodding off, is a lack of loyalty, but what can you do? I also imagine Joel wanted to step out of his brothers shadow abit and become 'the main man' himself at a different club. It must be hard if the whole town is buzzing about your younger brother, and isn't really interested in you.

Use your brain a lot more? What a fool





Im sure Joel can get the hang of

KICK .......CHASE.........DIVE ON IT......PILE ON

Repeat as above.

Can't you just picture Joel jogging from ruck to ruck, piling on top of everyone. Maybe getting ball in hand for 10 seconds in the whole game. What a bloody waste.

And we'll miss it cause we would have fallen asleep, best tonic in the world for having an afternoon nap.

several hundred grand for 10 seconds of work - dont knock it.



IIRC Ashton was lead try scorer in the world cup and only touched the ball about a dozen times