Get him signed for 2022 and get him on loan for this season.

Plus Joe Burgess, Morgan Escare, Joe Greenwood, Ben Flower and a few of the lower squad number players all left.

I can’t believe I’ve never been to theses beautiful places in Wigan that hold such a pull over Australia. Presumably NRL teams will be more reluctant to sign Wigan players on big contracts knowing they are likely to disappear after a season.

OR is someone pulling the old “homing pigeon scam” selling off at an inflated fee and waiting by the loft for them to return home*?

* For the purposes of potential litigation this is a light hearted suggestion and not intended to impugn the honour of any team/owner

Maybe he's going back to Wigan, and he's not getting paid for it, a la Radlinski. Rat smelt......(nothing to do with Tomkins)

It would make sense for Leeds to sign him until the end of the year.

Perhaps the Williams unrest has given Widdop the impetus to put his new improved game in the Aussie shop window.

James Graham spoke well on this on NRL 360 this morning basically saying when he went to Australia you plan getting your family over to see you and you coming home in the off season but with Covid none of them things have been able to happen. The same thing happened with Bateman where he wasn't able to see his daughter last year because of Covid.



Anyway, I'd love us to break the bank for Williams. He was, for me, the best halfback in the competition when he left and he'll be even better now. I'd sooner him than Trueman.

could always get Castleford to sign him on loan as a marque player until the end of the season to get him used to working with Daryl Powell!!!!!

World-class English talent, start of his peak, won't wanna' go back to the NRL.



If Warrington has a chance, then we have to make it happen.



If that means being ruthless and paying Austin off or whatever, so be it.



If he's intent on going to Wigan then fair enough, but we've surely gotta be making efforts to lure him.

Trueman could end up like Brierley , missing the boat by not moving to a big club on decent money when he had the chance.

Anyways the Duck on Williams ‘nailed on’ is still running. [whistles

As I understand it paying off Austin means it still counts on the SC it doesn’t just disappear.

You are correct, but if an Australian team signed him off us now, then we wouldn`t have paid him off.................