Quote Wires71="Wires71"Nothing on the table as yet for King according to this article. https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/sp ... yond-year/ Personally, I feel with the players we having coming through we can save a massive amount of cap here by letting that remain the case.'" No way will he be offered anywhere near his current exorbitant wage on his existing contract at Wire. A lot will depend on whether Wrench can stay fit, has improved his defence and forces his way into the starting 13. With Lindop on the horizon too, it maybe King will not be offered a deal that he finds acceptable and moves elsewhere?

Quote Wires71="Wires71"Nothing on the table as yet for King according to this article. https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/sp ... yond-year/ Personally, I feel with the players we having coming through we can save a massive amount of cap here by letting that remain the case.'" No way will he be offered anywhere near his current exorbitant wage on his existing contract at Wire. A lot will depend on whether Wrench can stay fit, has improved his defence and forces his way into the starting 13. With Lindop on the horizon too, it maybe King will not be offered a deal that he finds acceptable and moves elsewhere?

I don't think he is getting anywhere near that anywhere else. He will also have to accept a club lower down the food chain. Maybe his home town Huddersfield?

Warrington can really improve on the starting left and right centre positions occupied by King and Tai, either from within as you suggest, or by recruitment.

Neither King or Tai offer that much to the Wire attack as individuals but are good defensively and make good yards in the early tackle count.

It`s a shame that we missed-out on getting Wardle from Huddersfield as there was a player exchange deal that should have been sewn up with King moving there. The players that Wigan sent there in the Wardle deal were both inferior to King. .

If Tai, Musgrove and Vaughan go, which I think is quite likely, we’ll have at least 3 quota places available. I wonder if we’ve already got things lined up

I wouldn't be surprised if we went back in for King if he ended up being available. I get the feeling Keighran will head home and Eckersley may well be given the shirt but Eckersley can also cover wing and fullback and whereas now they have Miski, Keighran and Eckersley fighting for 2 spots on the right hand side, they'd then have Miski, Eckersley and King. All just a guess but he was very popular in his time at Wigan by all accounts and did a great job for us.

it's true what you say, but I feel we need more if we are to win a Grand Final which will involve us finishing #1 or #2 after the regular season. The attacks that involved Tai getting his hands on the ball typically ended with him running diagonally to the touchline, hitting the brakes and being tackled as he cut back in. King, whilst not a natural wingers centre, has a bit more of an idea but lacks pace. We also stopped the high kicks to him for some reason.

Perhaps you can have one yardage/defensive centre like that in a side, but not two. Our best side in decades (2011) had Matt King and Bridge as centres. Both potent attacking players.

I'm not sure Wardle was ever a long term opportunity for us, superb centre as he is - he does it all.

It wouldn’t surprise me if we don’t fill our quota next season.

Byrne in and Vaughan out, so even if we did keep Musgrove (hope not) and Tai we'll have 2 quota spots, As Yates will not count on the quota if the new rules come in to affect next year.
I think King will have to take a pay cut next year regardless of where he goes so we very well might keep him. Unless as said in previous comments, Wrench and Lindop develop well this year and can take the centre spots. Will ease our Salary cap and fill our centre spots for quite awhile.
Also i still think Max Wood offers more than Musgrove in every game i've seen. Even though he's smaller he has a slightly better impact than musgrove, has much better skill and plays 2-3 times longer than musgrove, so it could well be Wood who takes his spot. And i hope Luke Thomas gets some game time this year, and can build on what we saw before his injury. And we have Green and Whitehead in the wings, so fingers crossed they continue to develop.
All in all i think we're looking good long term

Spoke with Liam Byrne tonight, he confirmed that he has signed for Wire. The deal is the same he was offered at Wigan, so you have done well there.

Huddersfield and Warrington got mugged by Wigan. I can’t believe that neither club tied him down

I'd start Wrench and Lindop now, but I'm not Sam Burgess who needs to win games, just a fan who likes exciting players.

King did fit perfectly into the Wigan system and they expected him to play a solid game, we expected him to be a world beater.

It was wide spread media that Wardle had already agreed to go Wigan before he came to Warrington on that strange swap deal.
It was lightly rumoured Wire had tried to get Wardle out of his agreement to Wigan, how I don’t know.
Although Carvell managed it once.