I've no idea. I think in 2020 Saints wanted to give him 4 years, but he wouldn't accept anything longer than 1, hence his contract being up at the end of the season. I think it's common now for younger players to accept short term deals so they're more attractive options for NRL clubs. The same has just happened with Regan Grace, signed a 1 year deal when Saints were begging him to take a longer one. The NRL cap is now at a level where the average NRL salary is three times the average for SL.

Almost all fair points but does he offer anything creative to the team?

There is also the likely possibility that King has wanted to wait till he got to the end of his deal to test the market, most likely way of getting best value for himself, whether he intends to leave or not, it's not always in the clubs hands to get a deal done early.

Gutted if he leaves, if we are trying to win the big time we need all of our stars. - Unless they want to leave that is.

And Percival, Welsby, Lees, Knowles, etc.

If he leaves I would only imagine its because he doesn't believe we can challenge for the trophies on offer, which is really damning of the club in my eyes, i would be concerned about our other top players wanting out and also even more bitterly dissapointed that price was kept for so long. I would hope that Darryl Powell will be chatting to him and selling his vision though and hopefully he does a good job, I think King is the exact sort of player that Powell would want to be keeping, we have some big earners likely to leave at the end of this season so just give him what he wants!

I will be desperately dissapointed in the club if he leaves to a rival team, especially saints or Wigan. I'd be dissapointed in King if he left for Hull KR as I thought he would have more ambition than that, no disrespect intended and maybe in a few years they could challenge but it would be hard for them. Catalans would be good for the weather I suppose but again I think it would be a poor career move for him. If the NRL were sniffing that would be a lot more understandable.

I thought Percy was a Widnes boy, and Knowles was Cumbrian born, apologies if I’m mistaken.

It's quite funny looking on some of the social media - where I think the contributors are numerous in number but not necessarily with a good understanding of how our sport works and/or the desires of players.
This applies to many threads including the ones about Toby King.

Here - with a few exceptions ! - it can be more informative and give one pause of thought. (On Twitbook or whatever, getting people who can string a sentence together is often a challenge).

So - ref Toby King - I can imagine we would match or come close to matching a bid from another UK club. Once that's out of the way, then it's down to the desire of the player. Does really see us winning the GF / CC and him being in a position to show his best form so that he can play for England? Doubt we could compete with Australia given their salary cap plus the opportunity to experience a different lifestyle (but it doesn't always work out).
Regardless of what happens with SP, I think Powell coming in would be a good move for him. I think Powell will get more out of him.

Like many jobs money talks though - especially in one with a limited timescale such as RL. He's right to look after his future.
And for those that say he should show loyalty, how many of us have stayed loyal to one employer for a big part of our careers? (Average employee has 7-10 jobs in their lifetime allegedly).

I don't want him to leave - he's on form at the moment at left centre - and trust we'll make (or have made) a decent offer - and be prepared to go the extra mile - but if his heart is set on a move then so be it.

I'd be absolutely amazed if it's anything other than his agent drumming up noise to get the best offer he can. I think you'll see King and Clark sign new deals in the coming weeks.

"loyalty" = if they are any good they should stay with us no matter what other offers they get BUT if they are out of form we should be allowed to rip up their contract and bin them off!

Percival is from Widnes.

But both came through our academy.

Toby King is from Huddersfield. Where did this even start?

You are from Warrington.

He must be a glory hunter our friend Saddened.

Not really he’s an Everton fan !

Crikey Saddened, surely your dad sat you down and ran through the birds and the bees talk!

People overthink this stuff about loyalty and who came through the Academy etc.

When we signed guys like Westwood, Briers, Ratchford, Daryl Clark, Lineham, where did we think we got them from? They were signings picked up from other clubs that had brought them through their Academies. Did anyone consider that those guys were lacking loyalty to the clubs that had brought them through?

Also this idea that it will be some sign of great decline if one of our guys like Toby King leaves to go elsewhere...well it wasn't for those players' clubs? All those guys I have mentioned above, played in Warrington teams that finished below their former clubs.

And if the argument goes that we had to pay more to get them because they weren't our Academy products, well why didn't they just stay at their former clubs on the cheap? If Hull KR, Hudds, Catalans are putting in big money for Toby King then we'll see if he stays with us on the cheap, just for the warm glow of playing for the team who brought him through the Academy, or whether he takes the market rate on offer to him, which is basically to say - OK Warrington, match what I'm offered by other clubs or I'll leave.

Hope he does go. I'm sick of you lot talking about him like he's a young Greg Inglis...!

Huh! Inglis is an old Toby King if you don't mind.

Nah, he's not as big as GI. More of a Jamie Lyon, I'd say.

Indeed, especially when everyone bangs on about Harry Newman being inglis King, meninga gleeson and Lyon all rolled into one, and the saviour of international rugby league

Don't come on here, don't get upset?

This is almost an exact re run of the drama last year when Ben Currie was in the same position. I am sure there were rumours about Wigan being interested. Maybe the only difference was Ben Curries injury record.
I am sure that we will offer a contract with a value of what we think he is worth. If somebody goes higher and we can't live with that under our cap then so be it.
Good luck to the fella. He is a very solid SL centre.

I think it’s agent talk really. Clubs might be contacted about availability, that way they get into a bidding war, but it’s in a teams interest also to say they’re interested even if they aren’t, to push the cap spend up on the opponent who signs them.

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