The facts:

OUT

Hoffman
Coley
Deacon
J Tomkins
O'Carroll
Pryce
Ben Davies


IN

Lauaki
Dudson
Flower
Lloyd (Into the U18's Academy)

Gelling (Rumoured).


IMPROVED CONTRACTS

S. Tomkins (Significant Increase)
Charnley (Unknown)

Begs the question why you needed the "special dispensation" in the first place........

they needed it so they could sign all these new players AFTER giving sam tomkins a big pay rise.

All the players we have signed are under the cap as per normal. The only extra above the cap is the difference between Sam Tomkins old contract and Sam Tomkins new contract. If that is too hard for some people to understand then they are pretty stupid

How is it a special dispensation when it applies to all teams? Its just a change to the cap rules to recognise home grown English talent, something which most fans of every team have been calling for for ages.

You're right, it's not hard to understand. Wigan ask RFL if they can break the cap and pay Tomkins more money and the RFL let them.

Thats what happens for the people who are the best at what they do. All other clubs can do the same for their England players too which is bang on. We need a strong England team for the good of the sport.

Would it be better to just let Sam Tomkins go to union? How about if the same happened to Roby, Hall, BJB etc shall we just let them all go?

Wigan didn't need the cap exemption in order to keep Sam Tomkins. They should have been forced to cut their cloth accordingly and save in other areas, such as not having 8 NRL players in the starting 13 for example.

Wigan applied for the exemption purely so they could spend more money. They've never been comfortable with a level playing field.

Of course it's a special dispensation. Just because other Clubs have not applied for it yet does not make it any less of a special dispensation.

They didn't need dispensation to mantain a squad of around the same size as last year, but they needed to improve the contract of one of (if not the) RLs premier stars.

Given the guys leaving, they could have given all of that cap space to tomkins, but that would leave them with 5 bodies short of a squad needed to play a SL season. Not even Sam Tomkins can do the job of 5 men (James Roby maybe).

As if Wigan were never going to replace bodies.

I don't know what you're all crying about. Even if they sign this centre, they look a weaker squad than last year, unless you think paying Sam more will make him automatically play better.