Quote: sergeant pepper "So you don't have any reservations about the signing at all? Or are we doing that thing of "thou shall not doubt the club"?
I'll say it as I see it - I could maybe get my head around it being a permanent deal I.e a year to "fix him" and then see some fruits of that effort. At the min it seems stacked in the favour of Wire.
To answer your 1st question - I'd much prefer that someone else did get him tbh, good deal or not. Outside of Saints, and possibly Leeds, I don't think there's another team with the potential to mold King the way we could. We'll make him a much better player - of that I'm sure. Who benefits long term from that tho? Is it a sound decision in the long term.
I mean we're talking about getting a player firing (Peet's words) and then sending back him back a better player to one of our biggest rivals. Would Saints take one of our guys, build him up, at the expense of one of their own, and then send him back?
You also talk about the club seeing something in him as a player, well they certainly saw something in him 3 months ago when they purposely kept sending Thornley and Field at him.
I don't think the above is negativity for the sake of it. I'd say some of the points are valuable questions to ask on a forum.'"
King won’t play for Powell.
Let’s not forget how good King has been up until recently at Wire, and is playing well at Hudds.
If Powell gets binned next year I’ve no doubt King will be back at Wire in 24 to see out his contract.
I think this is a fantastic signing personally unless things have changed in the last week or so Wardle and King are our starting centres for next season.
That is a huge improvement on anything we have had for a long time.
It’s all well and good saying we could let him stay at Wire to eat up their cap but there would be others coming in for him so that would never happen.
He is a top notch young British centre.
Only downside for me is it probably means one of Bevan or KPP possibly both will be in the NRL in 23. I just can’t see how we can manage all those players under the cap unless we have got King for an absolute steal.