The St Helens Reporter and Serious About RL are reporting that Tomkins has stated that he is committed to join us for 2022, regardless of us being in the Championship. He said he had an option to stay at Catalan but he is committed to Leigh and was not going to pull out of the contract.
Positive sign for sure.

Not sure when he actually signed for Leigh but he must have known then that you were odds on to go down anyway surely ?

Will be 35 and does 10 games a season, garbage signing

Isnt he playing in GF this evening

He's in the squad

Makes him sound like a quality addition to our squad then, and not one we would expect to sign in his prime

If you think so we will see

few more signings like jt and we can all stay at home

Possibly he knows who he is playing with.

Exactly Atomic , I think Joel is a quality signing , and I also think Derek knows who we have already signed for next season , he has already stated we are staying full time , so I’m expecting some decent signings being announced very soon .

Totally agreed.
Watching him in today’s GF points to a different player than a couple of comments above suggest he is.
Great signing for me and very happy he has committed to us for next season.

VC , I think Joel is a bit of a character, yeah he made a mistake in the Wigan Bar , but that’s gone now , he looks a good player , the type we need , put him in a good pack and he will shine .

Tomkins, Stone, Whitbread, Sidlow and hopefully Ioane will be the cornerstones of a great pack that will see us promoted.

Promoted to what - is it not 2x 10 the season after, ain’t no champ team stepping into that - imagine telling 3 SL teams there coming down, be like turkeys voting for Xmas

Charles, Joel is now a 'Rectum of Leigh'

Could be right there Budge , it was a cringeworthy time for him , but the lad had had a few , we all say things at the spare of the moment , he could have said much worse , now we have a very good pack man , I’m very happy with his signing .

I thought the same last season when we signed Flower but look how he turned out. I will reserve judgement of him until I see if he is playing with pride for the Leigh jersey or just here for the money, as most of the has-beens usually are. Us supporters and DB deserve players playing with passion for Leigh.

Has Degsy Trump confirmed that you’re staying “full time” next year then? If so that’s great and you’ll go up (again). If you don’t spend the full cap the year after though you’ll come straight down though (again).

Hang on though, is his legal action against relegation not going ahead now then? Hmmmm….

no action against relegation mr though im glad you called him degsy trump rather than degsy sleepy joe we will need to be full time next year for the 2x10 format so sl2 for leigh for 2023 anyway will it be wires year next year......again: lol:

So he’s not going ahead with any legal action? No way……what a surprise. Lolz.

Texas Whine , yes Derek has said we are staying full time next year , and we will receive a parachute payment to help us , along with a few quid from others , our spinsters are staying loyal, as is most of our fans , hopefully we will be announcing soon further signings .
As for coming straight back down , you may find the rules and conditions may change at the end of next yearsoyourRumplestiltskin, pleasure and predictions won’t matter .

Er…..some English words in there, not all and certainly not in the right order but anyway. Enjoy the rugby and love to Degsy Trump and his myriad legal challenges.