Cronk firms to become a Rooster

The whispers are growing louder that the Roosters met with NRL to discuss what it would take to get Cooper Cronk on their books.I have to say if Cronk goes to Souths or Roosters then the whole comp is a farce.NRL start doing your professionally.

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  • Rumours about Cooper Cronk's potential move to the Roosters are beginning to gain ground and the Tricolours now reportedly sit in the box seat to snare his services.

    Despite Blues superstar James Tedesco joining the club in 2018 on a multi-million dollar contract, the Roosters reportedly have $800,000 left in their piggy bank, and with third party agreements, they could conjure up enough cash to make for a respectable offer to Cronk.


    Speaking on Fox Sports' NRL 360, journalist Paul Kent revealed the Roosters are working out the necessary moves to be under the cap and steal the Melbourne weapon.

    “There’s a little bit of a whisper that the Roosters were in at NRL headquarters asking for advice on how they could get Cooper under the salary cap, and what they’d need to do and what chairs they’d need to shuffle to make that work,” Kent said.

    “This won’t be for a notional value. This will be for a pure contract amount.

    “You hear Cooper mentioned with a lot of clubs and I think there’s a lot of dominoes with (James) Maloney and (Matt) Moylan.

    “Once one starts to go, I think a lot will happen quickly.

    “But at the moment it’s like nobody’s quite sure where it’s going to come from.”

    There are concerns raised about how much money they have to spend with four Origin representatives and four internationals on their books in a star-studded line-up that was one game from the grand final in 2017 and is on track for bigger and better things next season with Tedesco's arrival.

    It also leaves one of the buys of the year, Luke Keary, without a full-time first-grade gig if Cronk was to pair up with Mitchell Pearce in the halves.

    Pearce and Keary formed one of the most dangerous combinations in the competition in their first year together and Cronk's signing would likely push Keary back to bench to fill in Conor Watson's utility role with the youngster off to Newcastle.

    This is all, of course, if they can somehow convince him out of retirement.
  • someone should post who Easts currently have; and the worth. But i am sure they have millions in TPA's...it just makes you laugh about Brisbane and TPA; and if anyone listened to Bernie on TCT he made some v strong points on TPA's. was a superb listen.

  • What a farce if this comes true the nrl is becoming. Every year despite the salary cap evening out the comp, we see the same core group of teams in the eight and the rest scrambling to try and make it in. The same clubs seem immune to salary cap restraints and continue to recruit whoever they like. The Broncos players continue to sign for unders and on it goes.
    • X10000000 friggin illuminati protected species EVEryWHERE!!!:-(((((((((
  • If Cronk goes to the Rooster, the outcry is going to be such that it could pull the whole salary cap system to pieces, which is something I'd welcome.

    • T Greenburg made a huge song and dance about Parra along with media hacks; yet nothing has been sorted re: TPA's and player managers.....typcial spin from NRL

    • 1 Eyed Eel : Not a chance. With Geenturd propped up by Big Nick Polities, SFA will happen. Get Cronk to the Eels--last chance at bargain prices.

    • Exactly. How can you have a squad with Pearce, Keary, JWH, Cordner, Friend, Mitchell and have a spare $800K sitting around? We've got a much cheaper squad and I doubt we've got that much lying around.

      Interestingly I heard a chat with Bernie Gurr the other day and he said players' salaries should be published like they are in the States and the TPA's either removed or capped alongside the salary cap.

    • How many gift cards is Cronk going to receive?
  • What did we look for under Greenturd

    Transparency, player manager investigation, TPA issues, sensible policing of the salary cap

    Given he would know where the skeletons are, a wonderful opportunity to open the gate to reform of the issues that annoy the tom tits out of fans

    What did we get, a political animal , who like the Labour party, mouths motherhood statements with no solutions and little vision.
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