Are people reading too much into that very short and, albeit vague, article? From my reading SB just needs to know if King feels physically ready to go in a big game. Either way it's better than last year when Powell couldn't hold his own pee and chose to vent about fans, players, etc rather than keeping mum. At least SB is discrete if there is a wider issue with King.

Anyway, that aside, here's hoping Stains take a walloping tonight from what is a very 'physical' Catalans side. A few HIAs here, maybe a dodgy sin binning/ban there. Does this make me a bad person?

Given the stance that Sam Burgess made at Souths when dealing with Latrell Mitchell, and subsequently it looks like he was right all along, I can`t see Burgess taking any crap from ANY of our players.

We made the mistake of loaning King out to Wigan last season when we should have allowed Wakefield to take him.

If he is isn`t committed to the Wire then I agree a 1 month initial loan deal with Barrow could give him time to reflect.

1 Jordan hasn’t a brother, probably referring to the Batchelors.
2 he suffered a couple of niggling injuries last season
3 he was out on loan for a couple of years under a certain coach and lost
two years of development, in my opinion would have been playing at a
higher level at a bigger club before now.

Did you watch the video, though? I definitely got the feeling that Burgess didn't want to say too much, but was happy to point out that King's behaviour wasn't what he'd expect from a 'modern day' player.

I get the feeling he likes King enough as a 'personality', but I'm also certain that he won't make room in the team for a player that's not going to put themselves on the line every week for the cause. If King wants to dictate when he plays, despite the ridiculously high salary he's on, he can do it at Hull. Tony Smith seems to be giving the Hull players a lot of freedom to p*** around at the moment anyway.

Does anyone have a link to the video please

I have just watched the video. Blimey stop feeding on every little word that Sam says ... otherwise he will start being like every other coach and say nothing. Easy to stir up crap for a player. Move on.

https://youtu.be/GDMveI0A8uw?feature=shared I dont like the inference i must admit.

https://youtu.be/GDMveI0A8uw?feature=shared I dont like the inference i must admit.

Coach at ease with his players and having a bit of a tease. I might be wrong. As a coach if a player says he's injured that's it ... but you might call him a wimp. Not a big deal for me.

I can understand your view, I just think there's a lot more to come from him and at the moment some of his decision making is iffy particularly within set plays. His ' high ball under pressure' doesn't inspire me with confidence and I can imagine him and Thewlis being bombed all match long by Saints.

My post wasn't talking much about the top 5 as such, more about his positional play that they picked up on - particularly in relation to where Williams was.

FWIW I agree with you top 3 but Field and Welsby agead.