No Worries wrote:
True but it's leading the team in a key position of the spine that gets the team there. Or Cronk was just lucky not to play alongside the crud JT endured ?
I spend way too much time thinking and occasionally writing about stuff like this. So here’s my two cents:
I think Cronk is a great player and doing it away from Smith/Slater will cement his legacy, even though his current team is also pretty stacked. Maybe the best measure of his value is the time Qld lost an Origin series in that run was when he was injured.
But I don’t think he’s on JTs level, who could carry an average team on his back and just produce something to turn a game as required. In attack obviously but even in defense, where he was meant to be a weak link, the amount of cover tackles or mopping up a kick when he shouldn’t have been able to get there is phenomenal.