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Cooper Cronk press conference tomorrow 10.30am sharp

bottle

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If the Knights are in it, surely they'll win it? Seem to be signing anyone they want at present.
 

Grapple

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Yeah, I can imagine the Bennett draw card would be pretty tempting at Newcastle. He'd do well at St George though. Roosters would make sense teaming up with Maloney, but they already have Pearce and Mortimer?.....Titans would just be a ridiculous option.

Gotta laugh at the speculation of the press conference, he'd be doing it at Melbourne regardless. He's said a number of times they'd be the first to know, that's obviously the way Cooper would do it.
 

fizman

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I think that this will be a left field decision, it won't be any of the "favoured" clubs - just a feeling on this.
 

Hutty1986

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Can Newcastle afford him? If this whole circus ends up with him staying at the cheats, it'll be f**king ridiculous (unsurprising, but ridiculous).

CC would take plenty of pressure off Soward, Jamie could focus more on his running game and kicking sides into submission.. ahh I live in blind hope
 

Silent Knight

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‎@RLW_Mole's hot tip: Cooper Cronk will LEAVE @MelbStormRLC tomorrow. Going to @sydneyroosters, @NRLKnights, @GCTitans or @NRL_Dragons.

The mole doesn't know s***. Cronk won't go to the Roosters or Knights. The Roosters will have Pearce and Maloney as their future halves combination and the Knights just don't have the salary cap space to fit in a marquee player of Cronk's calibre. We'd have to offload Mullen or Gidley (or possibly both) to make room for Cronk and that's just not going to happen.

We also have Stig and Roberts waiting in the wings so it's not like we're short on halves options. Also we just signed Beau Scott and if our squad needs something it's more size in our forward pack. Rumour has it we're after Jeff Lima or JWH to bolster our pack.

If Cronk goes to the Titans then he's got s*** for brains. Out of those 4 clubs the Dragons are the only likely sane alternative for Cronk's services considering how much spare cap space they have and the fact that Ben Hornby isn't far off retiring.

I'm willing to stick my neck out here and say he'll be going to the Dragons or staying put at the Storm.
 

carlosthedwarf

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Forgot the Roosters are getting Maloney, where are they going to put Pearce?

I think the Knights have a lot of guys off contract this year, and I'd think most of their forwards would be on relatively small deals. Can't see them having enough space for a serious run at Cronk though.

Has to be Dragons/Titans, with Titans the favourites.
 

BunniesMan

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Dragons or Souths. He ain't staying, not going to the Tits he won't go to a broke club. Easts can't afford him after Maloney. Knights can't afford because they need to sign forwards for 2013.

Dragons or Souths. Only teams in the comp with both capspace and the talent to surround him with. I reckon Maguire/Inglis/Crocker/King have been talking to him on the downlow and the reason why we're the darkhorse.
 
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thorson1987

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He is coming to campbelltown eagles to play in Group 6

But seriously I would say either dragons or staying.
 

Frailty

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Given the Storm apparently gave him a deadline, and that the press conference has been called by Cooper Cronk - I'm going to predict that he will announce that he is going to be leaving the storm....


... But he hasn't signed with any other club yet.
 

M2D2

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I will laugh so hard if he signs with souffs, but a different kind of laugh if he announces Titans.
 

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