indeed, i wonder if said person would be as brave or as willing to make himself known to the club or email the club to apologise to matt king.

Well the guy has certainly just earned my respect. like it was said above it takes a big man to admit mistakes, Well done Matt King !!

I wonder if those Fans who provoked that reaction with their personal abuse would, even consider apologising..... i very much doubt that

Good point, lets wait and see if they do!

Spot on, apologising to those who had a right to be offended and not those who didn't.

King has received some torrid abuse from "fans", purely because he's the easiest and closest to target. As I've mentioned previously on here, King received abuse at the Catalans game, despite the fact he had done nothing contributory to the scores conceded.

Bradford fans may be silent
Saints fans may be glory hunting
Hull fans may be abusive towards other fans

But there is no excuse for being abusive to your own players.

I applaud his statement.

Now let's get behind him and the team.

He is a poster on this forum. I'm just waiting for him to own up and realise how his public behaviour reflects on his character. Matt King can't hide away from his actions, this guy shouldn't either.

Fair play to him, and should be acknowledged that he has said something, takes a big man to do that and has gone up in my estimation.
Yes I have been critical of him, and still stand by that, but can't knock the guy for having the round ones to say what he did.

IF 'fans' did run to the side of the pitch and verbally abuse him one Sat - the only question I have to ask is WTF are stewards there for - am sure despite the lack of any stewarding where I stand, if I ran to the boards at the HJ and hurled personal abuse at any player - am fairly sure I would be apprehended - quite rightly.

do you know the history of matt king

before he came too england

Fair play, i'm not a great fan of him, but he didnt deserve abuse the other day.

Agree I'm not his biggest fan but the abuse was out of order

I've seen him about a few times too. He should do the right thing. Or ban him haha!

Who was it ?

Fair play to King. I think we all lead our lives by the notion that if you apologise for your actions when you know you have done wrong, then that then becomes the end of the matter.

Move on now. If he sorts his head out, he could still be a very important player for us.

Well done to Matt for being big enough and honest enough to apologise for his 'gesture' on Saturday.

I just hope that the 'idiot' who did abuse him in such a pathetic and unacceptable way has the good grace to do the same, but as others have said previously I won't hold my breath.

I sincerely hope that the supporters can now get behind him, starting on Sunday, and I honestly believe that we will see him causing the opposition plenty of problems over the coming weeks.

Onwards and upwards now starting with two points on Sunday.

Come on the Wire

I bet you could find him on some of the France pictures. He strikes me as one of [ithem[/i

well done Matt for releasing this statement and admitting he was wrong with his actions but as he said you can only take so much. The offending person should be truely ashamed and now he/ she should stand up and be counted by following Matt's lead.

Well done Matt King. Finally nice to see he's grown a set. It's pretty obvious too that the club are all too aware of the content of this site.

Now Mr King - [ianother[/i clean slate - take that aggression & those newly found spuds & play your off v HKR.

The first thing that needs to happen in this Godaweful mess that Warrington are in, is that the club needs to win back the respect & support of the fans. That's only going to happen in one place.

Just to clear it up then; it [iwasn't[/i on the coach, nor was it a five knuckle shuffle salute?

Needn't have apologised then, seems nobody thought it was a one finger on the pitch aimed at a drunken .

good man good gesture we should close this

Be nice to get an apology the other way first.

Well done Mr King.

We now need to adopt a siege mentality all round - players / fans /officials - we are one big team, let's start acting like one.

Remember, we have no divine right to win every game !

Just my take on this, but I'm not sure who exactly the 'person' in question is. As it's been stated already the reaction appears to have come after someone who was not drunk, simply questioned Kings effort/role in the side over the past 12 or so months, without the use of foul or abusive language, and therefore has nothing to apologise for. If that was the straw that broke the camels back, then so be it, but if others were handing out personal/obscene abuse its not fair to scapegoat someone for something they haven't done.

Well done Matt King.
Hopefully now as people have said we see more of what we were expecting from him.
Confidence has a big part to play in sport .
We all have the right to express our opinion but this needs to be chanelled in the right direction.
Lets draw a line and let TS get on with his job.

Well I dont mind coming on here and saying that I gave Matt King some stick on Saturday and at other times too. Not just him but all of the team.

HOWEVER.. I would never do what that fan did and stand there and personally abuse the guy though.. I have vented my frustrations from the terraces a few times as im sure most have recently. (Although I couldnt hear what was said)

Good on Matt King for making a public statement. I have sent an email of support to Matt King via club email. Im not sure it will reach him but sent it in anyway.

From what I saw there were 2 different blokes that both went to Matt King and abused him. The stewards were terrible on Sat so much so i am intending on complaining about one of the senior stewards.

Well done Matt King. The TEAM were shocking on Sat not just one player, and because he is getting the big bucks he is the one getting in the neck. Watching him when people are mauling him with no constructive critism but personal abuse is very uncomfortable to watch. Yes he has not by no means reached his full potential as a player and i'm pretty sure he knows that, we have reached rock bottom now so now I think its time we try and get behind him and the rest of the team. I know people we say we pay good money, don't we all, but if you don't want to support your team don't pay the money simple as. Sadly as fans we have to take the highs with the very bad lows.

He was personally making King a target at the top of his voice screaming and waving his arms like an idiot. He could have been saying anything. King overracted and apologised. He should do the same.