Come on Jackie the guy was wafer thin and crumbled just as easily on most occassions. In 2001 our midfield was our weakest link we had All Australians in Gaspar and Kellaway in the backline talls in Richo and Otto and Otto could also play ruck with Benny Gale. We had no hard nuts who could hold their own in the midfield like a Michael Voss. Campbell was okay Knights was on the wane Broderick was an bit impact player coming off the bench Bowden was more interested in self preservation. Coghlan had not yet established himself. Teams like Brissy and Essendon blew us away in finals not because of our backline but our midfielders. When our third tier players at that time like King at best, could not make much of an impact due to to their small size, their lesser strength and lesser skills compared to third tier players at the time that the two aforementioned clubs had in Barnard,Notting, Copeland, Moorcroft and the like who also had goalkicking abilities then you should not be thinking of without King we would not have made the prelim b/c that's what Spud the Dud thought and look what hapenned, we should look at our two finals losses and think Geez its third tier guys like King who are going to consistently make us fall short time and time again. Like I said King was going to be neither a 200 gamer nor a Premiership player. After all we were his third club. What were we thinking after two previously failed marriages for King. He was merely a piece of chewing gum that barely fitted over the crack in the dam wall at the time. Due to a decision to keep him further the crack developed into a gaping hole and the water is has only now started to stop rising.
