So I’m hearing Toby King is back with us next season and will be along side Wrench.

I've got no issue with that, he'll be a better player than when he left us. He's a decent player and Wrench has the attributes and potential to be a great player for us

Nobody knows if the plan was to do something like this with him anyway. It was literally just all oppinion that he was as good as gone. But i do get what you mean about the lack of centres, as he is still our player we can do whats best for us.

Wires 71 will self-combust if this is true.

Given that there will still be 2 years left on his contract and Wigan are prepared to pay up to £200k for Tyler Dupree, it is logical to ask for a fee or we might as well take him back.

Typer Dupree is worth signing.

“I wanted a certain type of centre. To be fair to Toby, there’s no doubt he has a lot of potential. But I think after he got his contract here last year he kind of stalled. And I don't think at the start of this year he was playing his best rugby.

Not sure how to view this news?

We need a centre and obviously he is one, and he isn`t a Quota player, which is a plus. But there is baggage associated with his return (If it happens).

There is no doubt that he was one of the players who wouldn`t accept Powell`s new broom approach last year, and that is why we moved him to Huddersfield initially, and then Wigan for this season.

There is also the issue of Salary Cap management, and King requiring to be paid the deal that Wire agreed with his agent.

It looks to me that Hiku choosing to sign for Hull KR, has upset our centre recruitment plan, but surely there must be other players available from the NRL.

I would prefer that King was loaned-out again for 2024. There will be other clubs other than Wigan willing to take him.

We should then be able to sign another centre for next season.

Ratchford has another year of his contract left for next season btw.

I think 2 points to make is if the story going around surrounding Dupree to Wigan I think that is going to be a big deal and therefore Wigan won’t want to take on King’s salary.

2nd given the contract he is on now who realistically would or could take it on.

But yeh probably the Hiku situation messed plans up a fair bit

I don't know why people think hiku has messed the situation up... There are other ooc centres available....hurrell,cross, keighran in this country alone... Why on earth would we need to take Toby back... just Loan him to another club rather than fund it for Wigan and move on

Hiku was offered a contract with us but got a better deal from HKR that’s were the messed up thing comes in. If he had signed with us would we have looked to bring King back or sell/loan him out again.

Anyways like I said earlier from what I have heard he is back with us next season.

Let's remain positive that these are words being said to king and Wigan to remind them who his contract is with and focus them towards a deal ...the reality should be there's way too much water under that bridge for him to return unless we are bringing cooper back also as the team motivational speaker

If Toby wins a GF ring with Wigan that will bring invaluable experience to our back line for 2024.

Hiku signing for KR wouldn't have messed our situation up at all.
1. There's no proof we were in for him other than rumour.
2. I doubt we would have put all our eggs in to 1 basket, to then be sat scratching our heads panicking because it didn't work out.
He may have been an option but we'll have had plan A,B,C in the pipeline anyway.
As i say i won't lose any sleep what so ever that he's signed elsewhere. He's a decent player but not a must have player by any means.