getdownmonkeyman wrote:The more I think about King, the more of an enigma he becomes.
He played his part in one of the meanest defences in the NRL, yet looks a million light years away from that player. Could it be the the almost blitz like defence suits him far more than our sliding, slower tempo line speed?
By this I mean he hits the tackler front on, no need to keep sliding waiting for his opposite nu,ber to receive the ball.
It is quite the conundrum.
I'm not very well up on rugby tactics, in fact I haven't the slightest to be honest. But when I watched the Storm, I always thought King was relatively weak in defence, he'd often leave his winger struggling and gaps for the opposite centre to run into. The thing is, he had Turner as his winger and Hoffman as his second row, both quality players in all aspects.
But even so, King must have had something in defence which got him into that side, you don't play for Australia, NSW and be a key player for the GF winning Storm if you've not got something, since he's been with us, people have strolled through since game 1 (was it Hall who bagged two?).