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Do you want Brad Arthur as coach

Do you want Brad Arthur as coach

  • Yes

    Votes: 106 49.3%
  • No

    Votes: 109 50.7%

  • Total voters
    215

Gazzamatta

Coach
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I agree that the quality of a team can be compared to their points differential. This is why when we came 3rd and 5th we were bundled out pretty quickly. Look at our differential this season thus far. It's again worse than teams beneath us. Early days yet though.
 

IFR33K

Coach
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17,002
It helped them structure some bullshit arrangement where they kept both players. Nothing surer.


Your argument may have some merit, except for the fact teddy signed early May. Cronk signed late October that year. It’s ok to go stupid occasionally, but never go full poo.
 

Poupou Escobar

Post Whore
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84,160
What’s that got to do with anything?

No-one is saying Pearce is a better player than Cronk but there’s no doubt that the Roosters got Cronk cheap and were able to sweeten it with a bunch of other media, coaching stuff.

Do you remember the stink that people kicked up when it happened and all the jokes about Uncle Nick’s dodgy salary cap?

I also don’t think a club like the Roosters arseholes their halfback without having a plan B in place.
Yep. Cronk was a player they were able to reward outside the salary cap. The same benefits they could offer Cronk didn't apply to Pearce.
 

Poupou Escobar

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If you look too deeply the relationships won’t be too causal.
The great thing about money is that it allows people to trade things represented by money without relying on one-to-one trade balance. In the case of a salary cap (designated in Australian dollars), losing one highly paid player allowed his cap space to be redistributed across multiple players. It didn't all have to go to Tedesco or even Cooper Cronk. Thinking it does is simplistic. But if you think they waited ten seasons to realise Pearce was a suitable scapegoat you're unlikely to understand any of the other cost/benefit decisions that went into bringing in Tedesco and taking the opportunity to get Cronk on massive unders.
 

IFR33K

Coach
Messages
17,002
Yep. Cronk was a player they were able to reward outside the salary cap. The same benefits they could offer Cronk didn't apply to Pearce.


Yeah because that two year stint was the saving grace for Cronk. He would of had a million job opportunities post football. Even if he retired after Melbourne, there’d be work for him in any media outlet or coaching capacity. So why would he of taken unders at the roosters? Start reading the shit you post, you’d stop posting so much.
 

Poupou Escobar

Post Whore
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Your argument may have some merit, except for the fact teddy signed early May. Cronk signed late October that year. It’s ok to go stupid occasionally, but never go full poo.
But they had more than two players on their books, and plenty of those off contract. With Tedesco taking up a large part of their cap, swapping Pearce for Cronk represented an opportunity to alleviate cap pressure. Even still, they weren't able to keep Latrell Mitchell, or do you think he was 'moved on' because he was unable to beat Smith/Cronk/Thurston/Slater in Origin?
 

Poupou Escobar

Post Whore
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Yeah because that two year stint was the saving grace for Cronk. He would of had a million job opportunities post football. Even if he retired after Melbourne, there’d be work for him in any media outlet or coaching capacity. So why would he of taken unders at the roosters? Start reading the shit you post, you’d stop posting so much.
Because the rugby league media work is all in Sydney, along with his missus. I already told you this. You need to try reading the shit I post instead of continually repeating yourself. You might learn something. This will make you less confused and angry, which will be better for your health.
 

IFR33K

Coach
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Because the rugby league media work is all in Sydney, along with his missus. I already told you this. You need to try reading the shit I post instead of continually repeating yourself. You might learn something. This will make you less confused and angry, which will be better for your health.

do you honestly believe Cronk was only employable in Sydney because of his two year stint at roosters?
 

Gary Gutful

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Your argument may have some merit, except for the fact teddy signed early May. Cronk signed late October that year. It’s ok to go stupid occasionally, but never go full poo.
You are incredibly naive. This is the Roosters we are talking about.
 
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