King

[scottydeewah]

I am worried about King. In the last few weeks he has been the weakest link

 

[rizzo]

VFL time for king IMHO, hes a liability to us at the moment.

 

[Jack-Packenham]

I would like to see him play in the forward line instead of going to the bench when Ottens goes into the ruck.

 

[jim boy]

VFL time for king IMHO, hes a liability to us at the moment.

It won't happen, and anyway, even a weak King is still as good as Chambers.

 

[Sean Sheep]

I think we should keep playing him.... the more he plays the better he is going to get...

 

[nananana catman]

oops can someone delete this?

 

[nananana catman]

It won't happen, and anyway, even a weak King is still as good as Chambers.

Maybe, Chambers has a real crack when he plays which is more than I can say for King atm.

 

[Cattas_21]

King plays his best footy when he is allowed to ruck for the whole game. At the moment he is only rucking in short spells which is hurting his game. King at his worst is 10 times better than Chambers at his best though

A little fact:

Whoever is the captain of Geelong always plays crap!

Buddha - struggled, injured at times with his knee. Gave up the captaincy, returned to form.

Stoneham - struggled badly after broken leg.

Graham - Unbelievably bad whilst captain! They took it off him and he played pretty well at CHF.

King - Machine, now captain! Take it off him and give it to Rahilly! He cant get any worse

 

[sticko_64]

Maybe, Chambers has a real crack when he plays which is more than I can say for King atm.

Sam you love getting into Kingy. Give him some time to get some match fitness up. Ottens is doing enough for us in the ruck atm, i'm sick of people saying "but thats not what we recruited him for" because when we recruited him we thought we had Ben Graham playing as well so i think his effort on the weekend was fine. sorry i started talking about Ottens. Anyway Chambers will never come in for King as A) King is the Captain B)Chambers is 4th ruckman in line atm. One of Kings handballs to a player running past was terrible but he's alot more useful around the ground and in ruck contests than unco Chambers would ever be. Looking at the stats King was the 2nd best Ruckman out on the ground on saturday night, but certainly it was Ottens who's ruckwork contributed to those vital centre clearances

 

[sticko_64]

King plays his best footy when he is allowed to ruck for the whole game. At the moment he is only rucking in short spells which is hurting his game. King at his worst is 10 times better than Chambers at his best though

A little fact:

Whoever is the captain of Geelong always plays crap!

Buddha - struggled, injured at times with his knee. Gave up the captaincy, returned to form.

Stoneham - struggled badly after broken leg.

Graham - Unbelievably bad whilst captain! They took it off him and he played pretty well at CHF.

King - Machine, now captain! Take it off him and give it to Rahilly! He cant get any worse

lol, good idea with Rahilly but i won't support it if it means he gets a senior berth ahead of far more talented and skillful players!

 

[rizzo]

King plays his best footy when he is allowed to ruck for the whole game. At the moment he is only rucking in short spells which is hurting his game.

Its also hurting our chances of winning.

 

[Cattas_21]

lol, good idea with Rahilly but i won't support it if it means he gets a senior berth ahead of far more talented and skillful players!

yeah true...maybe we should give it to kent! hes a shocker and he always gets a game anyway!

 

[sticko_64]

yeah true...maybe we should give it to kent! hes a shocker and he always gets a game anyway!

lol, yeah thats a great idea. he was always my captain on afl live 2004 because for some reason all the full forwards were made captains! it also made me keep brent grgic ,aaron lord, mitchell white and david clarke in the team so its fair to say i hated that game! maybe the added responsibility would make Kent kick abit straighter, he gets enough of the ball. not going to happen though

 

[scottydeewah]

I think that the new ruck rules combined with the injuries he is had are REALLY hurting King. Lets hope he can play himself into form.

 

[Turbocat]

So many players say the the same thing when asked why they have improved this year, gennerally its "a full pre season".
How long has it been that King has been able to go hard at it without carrying or recovering.He was asked to play, by Bomber, two or three season back far too longer a period when injured because there was no quality option in reserve .To my mind , we have now have a much more sustainable ruck setup, King is gradually getting his body right and hopefully we will have a fit captain for the second half.In fact the same might be said of Ottens, his body , his mind will be in much better nick by season's end because he wont be asked to shoulder more than his fair share. A fit King /Ottens ruck combo could be the key to September success

 

[Cattas_21]

agreed, but would the captaincy be putting too much pressure on him at this stage?? he needs to concentrate on getting his game right without having the pressure of being the man who has to stand up and play a captains game! Ive got nothing against King at all.. i think he's an awesome player, but it happens way too often that a captain cant concentrate on his game because he is concentrating too much on captaining the side!

 

[catempire]

The only thing wrong with the big fella is a lack of fitness. Forget confidence, forget the new ruck rules (they'll suit him) and forget the pressure of the captaincy.

The bloke played himself into form coming back from a serious achilles injury last year only to hurt his shoulder late in the year and play through the finals series with pain killing injections. Complications with the surgery over summer delayed his pre-season.

He'll get fit over time, just like he did last year. The great thing about this year is that we have a more than capable replacement in Ottens which allows us to nurse King back incrementally.

Have faith in him.