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Message: [QUOTE="McHunt, post: 3217387, member: 9853"] [COLOR=rgb(255, 255, 255)][I]CEO reject [B]Ben Ikin[/B] is not bitter:[/I] “I think Cameron Smith will play on. I think he is kind of doing a bit of recalibrating in terms of his family life. He has shifted his family to the Gold Coast and he knows he doesn’t need a full pre-season." “We have seen the photos. We’ve heard the rumours. He is still in good nick. He is still kicking footballs. He could easily, with his footy IQ, drop into that Titans side and play as well in round one for the Gold Coast as he did in the grand final for the Storm.” “I have some people who have come across Cameron privately in the last four to six weeks and his standard answer when they put it on him about playing at the Titans this year is just to giggle. And he has got it down pat. I reckon if he was ready to move on he would be at least saying something privately. But he is not even giving anything away privately which leads me to believe that he is every chance.” [ATTACH type="full"]11404[/ATTACH] [I]Hole in one or one in the hole?[/I] “It would be more interesting if his name just showed up on the team sheet in the lead up to round one on the Tuesday. Contract is registered on the Tuesday morning, team sheets come out on Tuesday afternoon.” [I]He thinks Smith can transform the Titans into the new Broncos:[/I] “Because great players have the capacity to lift everyone around them three to five per cent. I mean Andrew Johns, what he did for some of those players in that Newcastle Knights backline, they will be forever grateful to Joey. That is just what great players do. Cameron won’t just get the best out of his young playmakers. I mean, (Jamal) Fogarty and (Ash) Taylor had a good season last year but with Cameron inside them it takes off a stack of pressure and gives them more time and space. And we all see what he does with any forward pack he plays with … he just lifts an entire side." “And we have had this discussion on NRL 360. You go back on Cameron’s career, you struggle to put two minutes of highlights together in 17 or 18 years because it is death by a thousand cuts with Cameron. It is all very subtle and cunning. Not everybody likes the way he does it but it works. It is effective.” [I]Smith's best frenemy [B]Cooper Cronk[/B] disagreed:[/I] “It would take a hell of a lot of sacrifice or cojones to go out and play for the Titans after having achieved all that stuff at the Melbourne Storm. I don’t have any mail." “You’re arguably the greatest player who has ever played the game. You are content in life. He can go down to the Broadbeach Surf Club and have a beer and put his feet up and enjoy. If he wants to play on it is completely his choice. I am saying he can. He is physically able to. He finished top five in the Dally M last year. So everything says that he could play on. I am not saying he shouldn’t. But my personal opinion is I think he has retired.” McHunt[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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