Recommitted Ben King [extends contract to 2022]

[Harris Specter]

Absolutely embarrassing episode from St Kilda as a football club. To publicly come out and say that you are keeping tabs on another player because of the twin connection, only happens because it's Gold Coast. Good on the Suns for re-signing Ben!

 

[Lach72]

Lololololololol

 

[RAPPA]

Looks like Max is off to the suns at the end of next year

 

[eastfreo75]

Maybe Ben King saw how the Saints acted with Fremantle and thought to himself they can’t get a deal done with low ball offers and dishonesty.

 

[Vindicater]

Peter Bell just set his sights on that first rounder next year from the Saints.

 

[Harro59]

Boom, well done sun's, locked him away until 2022.

This was the one that they needed to locked in to big a future around.

 

[markm106]

Looks like Max is off to the suns at the end of next year

It was all in the fine print of the assistance package.

 

[eastfreo75]

Peter Bell just set his sights on that first rounder next year from the Saints.

Bell now wants pick 12,18, picks for Bruce and Stevens, 2020 first round rounder, Acres, Roberton, Marshall and Billings for Hill and a hot jam donut.

 

[eastfreo75]

It was all in the fine print of the assistance package.

Sub section 2a paragraph 4. Stats that the Saints give up Ming for a hot jam donut.

 

[TiAn_]

Doesn’t mean he won’t request a trade to Vic at some point, but at he’s at least giving GC a strong trade position if he does.

Any deal for King in the future will send the Saints back to Seaford.

 

[M Malice]

The Saints will now shift their focus to acquiring Mason Cox.

 

[HairyO]

Close to zero percent.

Max is at his supported club with his favorite player giving him his number, guy is living the dream.

Saints offer $300k a year for 4 years. GCS offer $500k a year for 5 years.

How much love is still there?

 

[eastfreo75]

The Saints will now shift their focus to acquiring Mason Cox.

And Chris Masten.

 

[fargothegreat]

Well done Suns. Hopefully this is the start of a pattern of players sticking around.

No doubt Dogs and Saints fans would be feeling a little blindsided by this. I know I didn't expect him to stay.

 

[gcsunsfc]

Saints offer $300k a year for 4 years. GCS offer $500k a year for 5 years.

How much love is still there?

What you talking about.

Well done Suns. Hopefully this is the start of a pattern of players sticking around.

No doubt Dogs and Saints fans would be feeling a little blindsided by this. I know I didn't expect him to stay.

There has been zero indication from the man himself post draft that king wanted to move back to Melbourne whereas we’ve heard lots about how he is loving the coast.

Tell me again why dogs fans would feel blindsided?

 

[lewdogs]

Absolutely embarrassing episode from St Kilda as a football club. To publicly come out and say that you are keeping tabs on another player because of the twin connection, only happens because it's Gold Coast. Good on the Suns for re-signing Ben!

If you're talking about the Lethlean comments maybe you should listen to the interview. They were hardly embarrassing, he was very clear that Ben is a Gold Coast player. Absolute storm in a teacup.

Of course some fans would love the narrative of St Kilda supporting twins playing together, again it hardly makes it embarrassing.

Anyway I say good on Gold Coast, a great signing for them. But save the unnecessary potting of St Kilda.

 

[HairyO]

What you talking about

The assumption that the Saints player is happy and staying and the GCS player is unhappy and will go.

 

[TheShardMan]

If this is true Ben King is an idiot. Why now? Wait a year u fool! The chicken counting was on track to beat all the Shiel, Gaff, Coniglio talk combined. Melts would've been hilarious. What a dick. No sense of theatre.

 

[gcsunsfc]

If you're talking about the Lethlean comments maybe you should listen to the interview. They were hardly embarrassing, he was very clear that Ben is a Gold Coast player. Absolute storm in a teacup.

Of course some fans would love the narrative of St Kilda supporting twins playing together, again it hardly makes it embarrassing.

Anyway I say good on Gold Coast, a great signing for them. But save the unnecessary potting of St Kilda.

He said he would talk to king if he hadn’t signed by mid 2020.
So we can expect lethlean to keep his distance now?

I don’t think so.

 

[RAPPA]

The Saints will now shift their focus to acquiring Mason Cox.

The Texas connection with Saint Nick

 

[Milanista28]

Smart from King, 4 years is enough time to know if your long term future is with the suns.

Luko should do the same. King, Luko, Rankine, Rowell, Anderson, that's your foundation right there for 15 years.

 

[00Stinger]

but the Saints supporters were so sure he was going to them lol

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[Loken]

Great news.

Congrats to the Suns.

Always my preference to see top players stay at their clubs and no club needs it more than the Suns.

Hopefully this combined with the drafting of the 2 mates will be the start of a new Suns and a club players want to stay at.

 

[joop]

Rankine and now Bing re-signing. Maybe things are starting to turn for the suns?

 

[gcsunsfc]

The assumption that the Saints player is happy and staying and the GCS player is unhappy and will go.

Yeah, was talking about the contract figures you pulled from ??