I agree with the above and would keep him in above Atkins. Atkins can be extremely good but he is quite often as equally frustrating as he can make bad mistakes more often than not. On the other hand, king is getting better all the time and shows strong signs of becoming an accomplished, all round centre with different facets to his game including good decision making- something that cannot always be said with Atkins.

King and Goodwin are first choice centres for me now. The longer King is kept in the first team the more confident he will feel in being an established player and the better he will play. He has done nothing wrong since Atkins has been out to warrant being dropped. Ryan is number 3 now in the centre Battery. I have mentioned many times before that Ryan should be utilised in the back row. His style of play warrants this change of position.

I am sure Ryan would make a good edge forward. At the moment we have very few injuries (one serious) but our squad is small. I think this shift could be handy for us. Big enough & hard enough.

Good enough defensively?

His defence ought to be fine.

This forum was crying out for quality backs for 18 months. Price addressed this immediately. This forum said Russell wasn't up to the job - he was dropped and finished at Wire and we recruited Charnley. This forum said we needed more aggression and ability to break defences in the pack. We got Akauola and Murdoch-Masila.

He's doing well is Mr Price.

Quite agree on the Russell issue. Not quite sure that SP had much to do with the BMM signing. He would have had nothing to do with Sita's signing as that was a done deal last season. What i will say is that he is now maximising the effectiveness of Sita and BMM.

You do really have to question Tony Smith's judgement on Russell for so long. Instead of developing as a player Russell has regressed in his time here. It hasn't taken price 5 minutes to get shut. Why did Smith persist for so long?

Russell epitomised Smith's later tactics of a quick ptb and yardage gains. Unfortunately as a tactic (particular for an entire season) it's poor, easy to negate and very lazy....mirroring Smith's malaise for the game/inability to freshen things up.

Interesting that you use the word “malaise”, because I’ve been wondering for a while if there was more to his attitude than just falling out of love with the game.