Kingy

[Francois Jackson]

We've been here before. Chris Hyde, Greg Tivendale. Blokes who gave there all and we stuck with because every now and then against a backdrop of ordinary performances they would put in a decent effort. In Hyde's case around 2005 he had a very good season as a run-with player, was very tradeable but was gone two years later.

King might just be saved because i) there is so much scheizen on our list and ii) he is completely untradeable given that he has the rep as being the worst kick in footy, but I wouldn't be miffed if he was shown the door.

i agree in some part. We have been sucked into keeping this type of player before.

That being said there are a lot worse than Jake King. FACT!!

[WilliamPowell]

Grant Thomas on Footy Classifed las tnight suggested that Jake King is the type of player you can build a culture around short term.

In that the way he goes about playing is the way players should play for one another. He want onto say his isn't likely to be a long term player to take us to the holy grail but short term he epitomises the values you want in your playing group

Thought it was interesting

[Tigermonk]

Grant Thomas on Footy Classifed las tnight suggested that Jake King is the type of player you can build a culture around short term.

In that the way he goes about playing is the way players should play for one another. He want onto say his isn't likely to be a long term player to take us to the holy grail but short term he epitomises the values you want in your playing group

Thought it was interesting

l fully agree with Thomas, King shows mongrel & thats what every Richmond player should show on the ground.
We been too soft on field for many years. If we hurt the opposition by ruffing them up, Then that would be great to watch as l like a bit of fight & blood in games 

[mat073]

Can Jake King be the new Tony Liberatore of the competition ?

I like having a mongrel dog in the team.

Dont think Jake is in any danger of winning a Brownlow though.

[bojangles17]

i think he has enough to offer to warrant a place in the side, I agree with earlier remark there are alot worse players on the list than Jake King..

[wayne]

He did a good job. The reason Didak got 29 possies was because King had no help.

[Smokey]

For a laugh have a look at a new thread on BF started by a bored "tiger-talker":

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?t=619194

 

[Judge Roughneck]

Keep him for another year.

Has balls. Turbo ferrat.

Could be a good tagger. As long as he is not in the bloody backline.

[Chuck17]

From having him practically totally written off I have now gone to practically a must keep to show the young players how to play with passion, guts and attitude. 

[one-eyed]

Jade has defended Kingy in his EOTT report. Here's a snippet:

"Jake King was pretty disciplined on Alan Didak throughout the game. Didak had a reasonable impact, but King really kept persisting in his role on him. ‘Kingy’ is hungry and plays for his life every week. He gets some big jobs and he’s a bit of a tone-setter as far as being committed to sticking to a task for four quarters.

I can assure you that we didn’t instruct Jake to use any unsavoury tactics on opponents during the game. That’s something I would never encourage. But there’s no doubt that Kingy is prepared to compete, and to compete hard, every time he pulls on the Richmond guernsey."

Rawlings full report here: http://210.50.4.102/rfc/