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Parker and Slater MAY miss Origin 3 - who to move where?
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[QUOTE="Anonymous person, post: 2434150, member: 2115"] wow. you of all people i would have expected to see that Cronk made the right call. it was 6 points, no doubt. carney wouldve got to it before slater. the only reason it wasnt a penalty try is because slater was near the whole thing, and they couldnt say with 100% certainty that slater wouldnt have dived and somehow got it first. thats the correct call too. but watching it, you can see it was always going to be a 6 pointer. cronk did what he had to do to save a try, and id expect him to do it again if he had to. it was the right call. save 6 points and hope that the team can defend well for 10 minutes, or give up 6 points and the lead to a team who had already vastly outplayed them in the first half. in a match where even 2 points were as good as gold, he made the right choice. and like Queenslander said, him being off the field had nothing to do with Hayne dropping the ball onto his foot and morris scoring. and cronk wasnt shoulder to shoulder - he was behind carney. he literally grabbed him from behind and held him from the ball. he couldnt have just tried bumping him then diving because carney was already ahead of him. lol i forgot, cant say anything about a 'legend' without it being a "vendetta" or an "agenda". there is no possible way that Civoniceva has deserved his spot in this origin series on anything other than loyalty. he has played pretty poorly for the broncos most of the time. not solid, not pretty good. he is simply too slow now. last year he wasnt. this year he is. he takes an eternity to get up and play the ball, as well as getting back in the defensive line. call it a vendetta all you want, it doesnt mean we're not right. hes been poor in both origin matches. did you not see that second half? cronk was the only reason we were even close to winning. he got in there and took control of the match after thurston had shown that he couldnt/wouldnt. [url]http://www.sportsnewsfirst.com.au/articles/2012/06/14/meninga-backs-cronk-sin-bin-play/[/url] "Cronk’s decision to interfere with Carney twice was a decision Meninga supported. “He did it for the team,” Meninga said of the incident. “He had to do it. “I’ve got no criticism of 'Coops'.”" even Carney, the guy he tackled, agreed that it was the right thing to do: [url]http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/it-wasnt-a-penalty-try-says-nsw-state-of-origin-star-todd-carney/story-e6frexv9-1226395511691[/url] "People say it should be a penalty try, but it’s Origin football," Carney said today. "You do what you can to stop a try. And that’s what happened. I didn’t actually get a hand on the ball, so it was hard to call that (a penalty try)." Thurston also agrees it was the right thing to do: [url]http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/rugby-league/state-of-origin/no-apologies-for-play-that-saw-cronk-sinbinned-20120614-20b0z.html[/url] Cronk’s halves partner, Johnathan Thurston, said he would have done exactly the same thing if put in Cronk’s position. "He was fighting for the ball. No doubt I would have done the same thing. I think we handled it pretty well even though they got a couple of lucky tries. Hayne loses it and toes it on the boot, they end up scoring off the back of that," Thurston said. [/QUOTE]
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