Spoke to him at the Gala on Sunday,he has loved every minute at this great club ,his words not mine.

He also said if he wins the ring how good would that be on the first time he walks in to Warringtons stadium.
As already stated a true gent and had time for the fans.

If I was a wire fan that gave him stick I for one would be embarrassed

It’s a good job he isn’t going to castleford teaming up with Westerman.

[quote="Jukesays"]End of the game Saturday it was a pretty good atmosphere with the players doing the lap etc.

There were a couple of players in particular who I was pleased for
KPP - Proved me wrong, I didn't think he was tough enough, worked hard enough etc. Come back from injury and been fantastic. He's gone out the right way.

Powell - 12 weeks or so ago just before he came back from injury I made a statement that Powell will
King
I wasn't particularly bothered either way when we signed him, a few positives, a few negatives I thought and if I'm honest I was worried about what supply French would get.
But at the first open training session I took my Foster kid down there to meet the players etc and Toby King, along with Willie Isa were the 2 OUTSTANDING individuals we met that night (and Matty Peet).
Their time, the attention they paid to the young lad in terms of answering his questions, asking him questions etc.was fantastic.
Toby King must have spent over 10mins with us, telling us hiw pleased he was yo be here, hiw he wanted to experience the cure etc. And he also had a bit of a laugh with my foster kid who was 6 at the time on a play on words between his own name and my foster kids name (obviously cant say what it is due to confidentiality etc) which my lad.loved and repeated loads of times during the year
And the overriding feeling I had when I left was what a nice, professional young man he was
He got some pelters first game at HKR and I defended him as he was part of a right edge that was struggling with KPP and Cust, but as soon as Willie went back there, been fantastic.

About 6 weeks ago we arranged for a bloke we go on the coach with to watch a training session as it was his 80th birthday and hed watched Wigan for 75 years etc and the club were brilliant
He had photos with all the players etc and when it came time to meet Toby King he was again brilliant

And after the photo he came over, some 8months or so after our ladt conversation, said hello and asked how "Insert jokey name" was my foster lad.
Asking how he was doing etc and revealed that he'd had foster brothers/sisters growing up in his household

Some people will dismiss this, but he firs in with the culture Matty Peet has brought back to the club, and anyone who's seen the signs on the walls up in the kingfisher bar (Wanes bar) will see that along with producing good rugby players the club are intent on producing good people.

I'm made up for Toby King and wish him all the best for the future personally

Always look out for your posts, mate, but you've really outdone yourself this time!

Can’t argue with the team we are building for next year and obviously there were wider issues caused by his contract and the fact that he was a loan player but in a perfect world I’d have loved to have retained him.

Think he has been an outstanding signing.

I know we are building for next year but I think we are pretty good this year or the last year,if we win the GF I think we have built a great team this year,if it is to be improved next we will have to win the WCC and the CC.

Would be superb if one of the rumoured big announcements on Saturday was that we had come to an arrangement (fee) with Wire to sign Toby on a 2/3 year deal. I don't live in hope as I've no idea whatsoever how it would work with the Keighran signing and I'm not even sure if it could work for us within the salary cap.

Anybody think that the big announcement could be stadium related? No inside info or anything but I just think it would be good news If we no longer have to worry when the football side play in relation to our big games and potential changes of venue

It is nothing to do with a new signing but a current player.

Powell is the only one I can think of, so he gets a "send off" at the GF.

So good news regards a current player can only mean a contract extension. Unless we've done a late deal with Wire for King which is unlikely.

Assuming a contract extension then it could be Smithies, could be Junior who apparently has been extended but not yet announced, or it could be a further extension to French or Field or both? How good would that be?