You strolled through last season and I'm not sure if you even worked up to a stroll tonight.

Can i make a suggestion that you stroll off home at the earliest opportunity.

I'd refuse to play with him.

Seriously does Matt king employ a stunt donkey to fill in for him? he is a million miles of being an international player of any country nevemind an aussie international.

i thought he was good tonight, room to improve dont get me wrong, but he was most definately not to blame, give him a break!

no i think he employs a rugged bear looking at the beard

The problem is he is a WINGER not a centre. If we dont do anything about that left hand edge, all SL teams will score down that channel.

Thought for the first game, we looked pretty good albeit our usual collapse at Saints when they did finally score in the second half. We will win more than we lose and the season is one game old - not many teams would have lived with Saints in the second half & some of the postings on here immediately after the match are just pathetic. If you feel that strongly, then dont go ffs.

agree with you....promising signs i reckon from that first half, one word, KICKING GAME, ok 2 words! but thats the area we need to improve, long kicked us all over the park second half, briers and moners need to get a grip! and people need to lay off matt king

Yeah lets all blame Matt King...



I suppose some of you like to have a scapegoat but for Godsake, it wasn't his fault we lost the game its a team effort.

superb for 50 mins...dreadful for the last 30....all down to fitness..and this bunch look any thing but fit....dont give a toss about its only 1 game,thisgame was almost in the bag again..whoever does the fitness bit at the club should clear off

Not seen anybody blame him for the defeat but plenty of people noticing that he isn't the quality we thought we were getting and they are saying so.

I thought you'd signed the matt king i'd seen tear it up in the nrl for melbourne and the same in origin for nsw not this over-paid passenger!

He had a poor year last year, i was hoping to see signs that he was getting 'it' together, still early days (of this season)

what!!!!!!!!christ...utter bilge send him home and the other holiday maker monas

Matt King = Bin Man!

The sooner we wise up and get him on the wing with a centre who can deliver the pass, the sooner he will look more like his NRL self. I fancy him outside of Johnson.

King outside Johnson, Hicks outside Gleeson, sounds alright, no real pace there, though, although Hicks isn't the slowest.

We'll be like Bradford!

i thought we looked a bit slow in midfield on both sides to be honest, couple of their tries we were just beaten in a footrace, johno is a good player but needs to be paired with some pace king i have no idea what he brings to the team he can catch a high ball but since we don't use the tactic what does he bring?

should have put penny away in 1st half but cut inside he really is poor as a centre for me, compare him to gleeson even not at his best it's almost embarrassing that he has come with such a big reputation!

Spot on diagnosis, there. Agree with every word.

I'd also like to point out the number of first team friendlies we had pre season. Clearly not enough.

I wonder if his acting skills are any better than his rugby skills. He'd make a cracking doppelganger for Peter Sutcliffe.

was thinkin and what asset does king bring to the team

In all seriousness, has King done anything which has made you say 'wow'?

He is meant to be a world class player, and he clearly isn't. I personally think a young lad would do as good a job. (although I suspect that Lowes would still just take Penny off and blame him for everything).

Just watched the game and Gidley, who lets face it isnt the quickest centre around, ripped King to bits and made him look like Wellens on 1 leg.

3 or 4 of the Saints tries came from his initial mistake or lapse defence.

1. He'll be okay when the ground gets hard.

2. I wasn't being serious with (1.) I'm starting to panic that we have this guy for minus a week or so, three more years.

As long as he has the scapegoat Penny outside of him, he'll be fine.

I loved the way Penny got dragged off tonight, despite the replays showing Penny putting his opposite number on his ar$e, and King's opposite number walking past him!

Go take 5 minutes away from the computer.. then come back and look at what you just wrote.

A knee jerk reaction is not the fix for losing a game that we are all glad we have got out the way and will not have to play again for another year!