Fantastic Mr Catpiss wrote:Just to say, I'm not against the lad, I want him to succeed, if we had him ashton and dufty in the side, that would be unreal.
But there's a lot of revisionist thinking en masse about Toby King and how we had to keep hold of him cos the club would be poor at recruitment which turned into we overpaid him, why did we keep him the club is poor at recruitment
That is the problem with the club as a whole though. Loyalty can’t be bought, and without a realistic bait of having a strong chance of success, our recruitment and retention policy is to have the biggest number.
At the time we resigned King, he had been with the club for 5 or 6 years. A player in a similar position, let’s say at Saints for example, would get offered terms that suit the team and their role within it. They might get offered more elsewhere, but the bait with Saints is that you’re almost a 50:50 chance of getting to a big final. Saints have a strong hand when trying to keep them, but with the safety net that everyone wants to win, and you are serial winners, so recruiting a replacement is simple.
With us, Hull, Huddersfield etc. you have to win the number race. You could go to any one of them three clubs and have a similar chance on winning trophies, so you might as well take the money offer.
It’s a difficult cycle until you can create effective production from within and use the youth system to create an atmosphere where kids feel they need to be at our club, because it’s the best place for them to develop. But also where we can instil that atmosphere on those players in their way that we are a club that are ruthless enough to cut a big name player and replace him with an academy product, and create that dynamic where every session you are competing for your shirt on a Sunday, not just going through the motions because you’re going to get picked anyway.
Opinions seemed to vary from "the best centre in SL" to "not in the top 10 centres in Warrington's recent squads".
