Toulon make Wilkinson bid

Jonny Wilkinson could be one step closer to leaving the Guinness Premiership after Toulon's incoming director of rugby Philippe Saint-Andre confirmed the player's representatives were in talks with the French club.

World Cup-winning fly-half Wilkinson has been linked consistently with a move to the Top 14, following England colleagues Riki Flutey, James Haskell and Tom Palmer, and it now seems that formal negotiations have been opened.