Just come up on bbc sport that tommy signed a new 3 year contract, I for one can only hope that this means he's on reduced money (lenegan stated when he arrived he was on twice as much as he'd been on at quins) and also that he is our long term plan for hooker, not scrum half.

Story on official site: www.wiganwarriors.com/news_full.asp?newsid=4711 Leuluai is a very handy player to have. It would be interesting to know how we plan to utilise him him in the future, whether it's at 7, 9 or both.

Story on official site: www.wiganwarriors.com/news_full.asp?newsid=4711 Leuluai is a very handy player to have. It would be interesting to know how we plan to utilise him him in the future, whether it's at 7, 9 or both.

either this was done yesterday or noble hasnt been sacked?

Great news IMO.

Tommy is an excellent player, and clearly loves playing at Wigan. The debate is an interesting one about 7 or 9. He isnt your traditional creative 7 but one that i love to see attack the line. Best step in SL.

Great news... totally commited to the cause!

Excellent news.

Tommy has been one of best players this season and one of the few signings who have actually improved during their time at Wigan.

Players like Tommy are the future of this club and it’s excellent to see him being signed up to a long term deal.

Personally I'm pleased.

Tommy, while not a creative genius, is an aggressive broken-field runner and can cover both 7 and 9 effectively (though it's in the latter role where I feel his real future lies). What this means for McIlorum at Wigan I don't know, but Tommy I feel is the more effective and useful player.

Despite opinions in some quarters, it's not just about whether he's a born Wiganer or an ex-Academy player. If he's a genuinely good player, I don't care where he comes from.

Never a truer word said mate.

It doesn't matter where you are born as long as you’re committed to the Wigan cause and show pride in the shirt. Tommy does this for me and signing this extension shows his commitment to the club.

By all accounts he was shredded after the defeat by Saints, almost in tears he was so frustrated and angry. He desperately wanted to win that game - an attitude we need to see throughout the team.

Great news, he loves it at Wigan. I personally think that he will stay at 7 with Tomkins 6 and Smith going home at the end of the year and Piggy and McIlloram for 9.

I would like to see McIlloram loaned out for a year and a 6 come in and Tommy go to 9 with Piggy and Tomkins go 7.

Who knows with IL and BN though, plus theres not many 6s of real quality knocking about.

It was in tonights WEP that he was to offerd a new 3year deal good luck tommy all we need now is to tie down sam tomkins on at least 5 year deal maybe the rumor about siging r myler from salford mite go away.

Dare I say it, but with the Gleeson signing and now this, are we - on paper at least - starting to look 'something like'?

Belting news!

Precisely the point I have been trying to make for ages.

If he's our first choice 7 going forward we can forget about winning anything until 2013. Hopefully the plan will be for him to move to his best position where he's a world cup winner.

Does this put the Myler rumour to bed?

Not necessarily, if we're looking at moving tommy to hooker then we would be on the look out for a 7, and if we got myler it would free up a quota space for another prop that could have gone on Orford et al.

I didnt relaise how young tommy is he is still 23yo so he/we mite see his best rugby in front of him.

Made up with that.

He's a fine player that always causes opposition defences problems and defends tough. I think his long term future may lie more at 9 then 7 but his utility value will be excellent.

I'd expect Lenagan will look at another halfback in the off season to replace Smith and compete with Sam/Leuluai though.

Great news



Hopefully he's been told he's going to be playing hooker for the next 3 years though

Most definatly.

It’s not only Gleeson but Lockers, Hock, Tomkins x2, Prescott, Ainscough & Richards means we’ve got some very good talent that have yet to reach their peaks or prime.

One or two careful/choice signings at HB and Prop and I truly think we’ll be fighting for the top spot with Leeds and Saints which is where we belong.

Very good step in the right direction

Great news

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If he was on a huge wage then I'd have put the lot of it toward a better scrum half than he is.

Dave

Agreed.

Tommy is an average 7 at best with very little creativity, if we're resigning him as a 7 it's a bad move.

However, if we've signed him as a 9 it's a great move. he proved in the WC he potentially could be an outstanding 9.

No good having him play between the two roles, you need a permeant 7 and 9.

I wonder if the club are regretting a couple of signings they made in the summer. They've obviously spent good money on name players from the NRL at Hooker and on the wing before finding a player on the books already who's a world beater at 9 and an emerging star winger on sod all money whilst were short in other positions. Just a thought...