Then and Now - Sterling v Cronk

[OVP]

We will know more next season watching Melbourne without Cronk, but I think Cronk is a bigger key to the Storm than Sterling was to Parramatta.

Is that supposed to be bait ?

Parra would have zero premierships without Sterling, instead of 4.

 

[POPEYE]

Sterlo would have had too much integrity to get mixed up in the Storm tactics. He would probably have been man enough to confront Belly and say "hey man that is outside the spirit of the game. I don't need another boat and I don't want to give that guy a leg lock."

How old are you TB

 

[muzby]

How old are you TB

Pops, you know you can get in trouble asking that kind of question..

 

[RazorRam0n]

Cronk is as a prototype manufactured footballer, sterlo could do both game management and improvisation and was lethal with both long AND short kicking games

 

[veggiepatch1959]

I don't know but I always though that Sterlo was a tad overrated.

The one thing that I remember about him is that he hardly ever got tackled with the ball.

 

[T-Boon]

Cronk is as a prototype manufactured footballer, sterlo could do both game management and improvisation and was lethal with both long AND short kicking games

Exactly, he game managed brilliantly in an era when you had to read the game as it unfolded. Cronk already has the game written for him when he goes out there. It is a drill.

 

[Parra! *Clap Clap Clap*]

Peter Sterling is the greatest halfback to have ever played rugby league. He didn't need a website to prove himself.

 

[McLovin]

Peter Sterling is the greatest halfback to have ever played rugby league.

You misspelt Chad Townsend

 

[Sea_Eagles_Rock]

Is that supposed to be bait ?

Parra would have zero premierships without Sterling, instead of 4.

They had plenty of talent in those squads.

 

[Hutty1986]

Cronk's a soulless robot made to look much better by poor nsw sides and playing most of his career in an illegally assembled side. Sterlo was a better footballer, no doubt.

 

[King hit]

Cronk is the Sterling of this generation, Sterlo was the Cronk of his generation

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Cronk is the Sterling of this generation, Sterlo was the Cronk of his generation

So what's Thurston?

 

[POPEYE]

So what's Thurston?

The Johns of this generation

 

[JJ]

Sterling comfortably IMO and that's no slight on Cronk

 

[T-Boon]

So what's Thurston?

The Ricky Stuart but with athleticism and personality.

 

[_Johnsy]

I wonder if Sterlo ever experienced every sinew in his body come together in one perfect whole?

 

[POPEYE]

I wonder if Sterlo ever experienced every sinew in his body come together in one perfect whole?

Cronk has . . . that's why he's leaving Melbourne

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Brad Clyde in his fabled 1991 Clive Churchill medal speech* summed it up best:
'Sterlo was is great, Cronk is not far behind, I'm shit and I don't deserve this but I'll take it anyway'.


* available only on VHS

 

[Ring Gids]

I see Cronk as just a really, really good footballer and don't know why he gets lumped in with Smith and Slater as the big three (not as ridiculous as the Tigers big 4, but that's a discussion for another day). Both Smith and Slater will go down as the best players in their position in history IMO, and would make the top 3 of probably 95% of judges. Cronk isn't even the best half back of his generation and would probably sit 10-20th of half backs in history. There's a big 2 and Cronk isn't one of them.

Oh, and Sterlo by the length of the straight.

 

[SBD82]

I rate sterlo, but if I'm selecting a team of the players that I've seen, Cronk is the first picked.

I think the mark of a truly great half is that they make the ordinary players around them look good. Cronk has done this for years.

If you want to win premierships, you want Cooper Cronk in your team.