Geelong's King To Abdicate
During Grand Final week, it was King all the way for the Cats as they chose the veteran ruckman over Mark Blake. Now the word "retirement" is being thrown around as the Cats can't afford to keep King and don't seem to be very interested in working out a trade.
King should be able to find a new team in the preseason draft, if a trade doesn't happen. Smaller ruckmen McLaren and Ackland have been the top pick in some of the recent preseason drafts, compared to them King brings a lot more size and also a premiership win so plenty of teams would consider him as a preseason pick.
From The Geelong Advertiser: Geelong tells King to retire
King should be able to find a new team in the preseason draft, if a trade doesn't happen. Smaller ruckmen McLaren and Ackland have been the top pick in some of the recent preseason drafts, compared to them King brings a lot more size and also a premiership win so plenty of teams would consider him as a preseason pick.
From The Geelong Advertiser: Geelong tells King to retire
A source said with no interest from other clubs at the trade table, it left Geelong with little option but to ask King, through manager Ricky Nixon, to retire.
``They were thinking about keeping him for another year,'' the source said. ``After Blake signed, they think they don't need to offer him (King) anything.''
``They were thinking about keeping him for another year,'' the source said. ``After Blake signed, they think they don't need to offer him (King) anything.''
