no guarantees for king as kysa waits.

As the Parramatta Eels start to emerge from their recent injury mini-crisis, back-up hooker turned key man Cam King says he is comfortable with whatever decision the coach makes around the blue and gold No.9 jersey moving into the finals.King has been an important and underrated performer of Parramatta's charge to a top four finish, being on the winning team in eight of his nine games for the club and quickly graduating to an 80-minute role.Not until lately has King had the shadow of former first-choice No.9 Kaysa Pritchard to deal with though, with Pritchard pushing through what was initially feared to be a season-ending injury to become available for selection.King said coach Brad Arthur had yet to give him much indication of how that selection duel would play out in the coming weeks."He said I had the job this week and that could change next week, I'm not sure," King said."Brad's an honest guy and whatever he chooses to do I'll fully respect. That's up to him."When I came into the team I just wanted to do my job to the best of my ability and I feel like I've done that and like I said it's up to Brad with whatever way he wants to go from now."‌King has had to endure a horror injury run to be where he is now and has clearly benefited from a solid run of regular NRL football."I feel like I've got more confident each week and I'm back being confident at this level and to have this string of games leading into the semis, it's massive for myself," he said.He was also hopeful of playing in what would be his first NRL Telstra Premiership Finals appearance."It's obviously exciting [to finish top four] and it's a good reward for the effort that's been put in all year. We get a crack at the semi-finals and it's a whole new ball game," King said.Like his teammates, King knew the team would need to improve significantly on what they displayed against the Rabbitohs to compete with the Storm but backed the blue and golds to compete with any club on their day."I think we all understand that it wasn't good enough [in the first half against Souths] and if we want to make a real dent in September we need to fix up a couple of areas but in saying that it's probably good to have a good tough game leading into the semis," he said."There's areas we need to work on but there were areas we were good as well."On our day we can match it with anyone. The style of footy we play is really attacking and if things can go our way in a game and we get a bit of luck I think the way we play and the way we attack, I think we can make a dent."

"Thats a good side bem. Joash looked more confident and stronger in the trials, and his quick footwork really confused the opposition. If he's on the bench he needs to get onto the park"

"Iongi; JAC, Russell, Penisini, Simonsson; Pezet, Moses;
Hopgood, Smith, Paulo; Williams, Kautoga; Doorey.
Bench: Da Silva, Tuivati, De Belin, Walker, Samrani, Papalii. "

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Cʜɪᴇғy Mclovin 🐐 September 2, 2017 at 1:44pm

Kaysa won't get the nod unless King sustains a an injury.

The same 17 will run out next week
- ParraTime > Cʜɪᴇғy Mclovin 🐐 September 2, 2017 at 1:57pm
  
  That sounds about right. I'd say the only potential changes are French coming in, but that seems like a long shot, and even Terepo, I don't know where he would fit in.
MURRKNN September 2, 2017 at 1:49pm

8/9 record! sorry kysa but stats dont lie
Nitram September 2, 2017 at 2:04pm

We have the sort of team where outside the top 10 or so players every other player in the rest of the top 25 are relatively equal and don't exactly demand selection.

Kaysa and king are both in that remaining top 25, but at the end of the day king is part of a winning team and no point changing what's working.
Cʜɪᴇғy Mclovin 🐐 September 2, 2017 at 2:06pm

Forget about French aswell, hasn't even been training with the squad.

I'm a huge fan of Smith. He'll do the job.
- 2agd8rk0gah1u > Cʜɪᴇғy Mclovin 🐐 September 2, 2017 at 2:26pm
  
  Agree! Chief
- Nitram > Cʜɪᴇғy Mclovin 🐐 September 2, 2017 at 3:10pm
  
  Yeah maybe so but Id have french in over Auva'a though.
- Cʜɪᴇғy Mclovin 🐐 > Cʜɪᴇғy Mclovin 🐐 September 2, 2017 at 3:18pm
  
  Nope sorry
  You can't have french and Smith rucking the ball out.
- Joshuatheeel > Cʜɪᴇғy Mclovin 🐐 September 2, 2017 at 4:05pm
  
  Smith is attack good, but his positioning at the back is shocking!!
  
  Look at Souths tries last night, while he may have not stop them, on two of them along with the disallowed try he wasnt even close to the ball/player!! Not even in the photo frame!! That's not good, a good halfback will have a field day against him!!
2agd8rk0gah1u September 2, 2017 at 2:25pm

I'd rather have Cameron King in the side anyway.

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