Quote ="Rob Wire"Bick, Matt King as you know was the same in the NRL with his ropey defence but it doesn`t matter so much when your surrounded by world class players that can clean up the mess afterwards, it wasn`t ideal for Kevin Penny to have such a poor defender that goes wandering and charging out of the line on his inside. This is why Matt King was a winger at origin and test level due to his lack of creative skllls as a centre along with his ropey defence which any decent coach would target.
Matt King for me is an expensive luxury that we could afford to live without, yes he has been in very good form as a finisher on the wing but he was signed to cure our left centre problem which still remain in all truth, even his try against Cas was little more than a finishers try, he isn`t a creator that beats men on a regular basis and never will be.'"
So why did the coach who signed King as a left centre, not notice he was actually rubbish in that position, when he was scouting him before handing over that huge salary to him??
Do you actually reckon that the coach involved was a bit of a numpty, who hadn't actually bothered researching the player's abilities, and instead just got a huge thrill from signing a supposed big name Aussie??..