Re: Recruitment rumours and links : Fri Aug 18, 2023 5:14 pm  

Or thane wrote:

It makes sense to use Toby king as our marquee player as only 50k of his wage will count on the cap. It would be stupid if he wasn't.

50K is too much.

[Wanderer]

Re: Recruitment rumours and links : Fri Aug 18, 2023 5:19 pm  

Wires71 wrote:

50K is too much.

Had to read that twice to make sure it was a K and not a p.

Re: Recruitment rumours and links : Sat Aug 19, 2023 10:28 am  

Wanderer wrote:

King? ... As in Toby King? ...

Absolutely, he’ll only count worth of £50k on the cap under the new rule.

However once I’d typed ‘worth of £50’… I thought about leaving it there!

Re: Recruitment rumours and links : Sat Aug 19, 2023 10:47 pm  

karetaker wrote:

It would unless Burgess is trying to bring some big names over with him.

Only him and Williams so leaves 1 marquee spot. I agree i wouldn't use it on King, but with a lack of centres about i understand the decision to bring him back. And the 50k on the cap saves us about 100k (guestimate) so it's not bad really

Re: Recruitment rumours and links : Sun Aug 20, 2023 11:18 am  

A big consideration with Toby King should be "does he want to play for Warrington? ". Was his problem with the previous coach &/or certain players & will he be more settled & flourish under Burgess ?
Unless he actually wants to play for the Wire there is no point in fetching him back.

Re: Recruitment rumours and links : Sun Aug 20, 2023 12:11 pm  

Toby King was on fire ... prior to us tying up his contract. He has kept his place in Wigan's team & after a shaky start has had some decent games (from what I have seen). It looks like he fell out with Powell but new broom now. Think positive for me.

Re: Recruitment rumours and links : Sun Aug 20, 2023 2:15 pm  

ninearches wrote:

A big consideration with Toby King should be "does he want to play for Warrington? ". Was his problem with the previous coach &/or certain players & will he be more settled & flourish under Burgess ?
Unless he actually wants to play for the Wire there is no point in fetching him back.

His problem was being unable to remember his passport ahead of travel to Catalans and wanting to bring his pooch to training. Our problem is that he is on a rediculous high paid and long contract.

Re: Recruitment rumours and links : Mon Aug 21, 2023 10:49 am  

What I don't get with all this Toby King talk is that people on here always say we should invest more in our Academy because its cheaper to bring through home grown talent than buy in from outside and because they have more pride in the shirt when they have come through the Academy.

So Toby King should be a no brainer for us because he will be cheap and committed.

[Uncle Rico]

Re: Recruitment rumours and links : Mon Aug 21, 2023 3:42 pm  

sally cinnamon wrote:

What I don't get with all this Toby King talk is that people on here always say we should invest more in our Academy because its cheaper to bring through home grown talent than buy in from outside and because they have more pride in the shirt when they have come through the Academy.

So Toby King should be a no brainer for us because he will be cheap and committed.

A case of 'true word spoken in jest'?

Re: Recruitment rumours and links : Wed Aug 23, 2023 11:12 am  

Rodrick Tai.