Cronk opinion on Napa

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You know what killed Napa as a player? It was all the
Rule changes. He used to be all aggression partiality in defence. With the rule changes such as the shoulder charge being banned it took away a little of Napa’s upside as a player. Also the game has gotten quicker which means a lot of
Forwards are now not effective. Klemmer is another to suffer from the game being sped up.
Shoulder charge was banned in 2012.
Napas first grade debut was 2013.
 

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So glad to see Napa finally gone. Most overrated underperforming player I have seen. He certainly hasnt had teams knocking his door down with offers for next year. How dumb were the Dogs to pay him that much. Go get a real job Napa you lazy fuck.
 

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You know what killed Napa as a player? It was all the
Rule changes. He used to be all aggression partiality in defence. With the rule changes such as the shoulder charge being banned it took away a little of Napa’s upside as a player. Also the game has gotten quicker which means a lot of
Forwards are now not effective. Klemmer is another to suffer from the game being sped up.
Shoulder charge was banned before he played first grade
 

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Far worse than Dorothy.
Offerred nothing.

Try and banish and erase the memory of him ever wearing our colours OR ELSE forever have him as a tarnished reminder of never, ever recruiting such a lazy, uninspiring powder puff forward ever again. He was the very opposite to all the hard, selfless, team-first forwards who came before him and who defined our club in the past.

May those days return.
 

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in napa defence he joined a rebuilding squad with tolman as his frontrower partner, he was never a meter eater - more of a defensive prop - game has evolved to suit Karens and the intimdation factor is now gone...

you wont see players like prime napa, morley, burgess, even luke thompson - cant have agression in our game karen wont be happy.

the ref actually told pangai during panthers game youre being too aggressive.
 

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He actually said that Napa does not have the same access to resources and coaching at the dogs as he did at roosters and that’s the reason why he’s shit now? What a load of tripe
Not having easy access to facilities in the east, such as the Clovelly Hotel, did affect Napa's form.
 

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Crank must be on the good stuff like Jason Statham was in that movie Crank.
 

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Hope they continue to play footy and enjoy life, life at the top sometimes ends but it doesn't mean life should stop.
 

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Cronk has never player in a team that adheres to the salary cap, he wouldn't know what most players have to go through without a team full of superstars backing him up.

As an aside, I think he's a boring commentator/expert with all the insight of a drunk Blocker Roach
 

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Cronk has never player in a team that adheres to the salary cap, he wouldn't know what most players have to go through without a team full of superstars backing him up.

As an aside, I think he's a boring commentator/expert with all the insight of a drunk Blocker Roach
Yeh but a drunk blocker would probably be entertaining
 

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Cronk really struggles with putting sentences together without using mixed up cliches - he is better on podcast with Matty Johns. Just discusses without trying to sound too clever
Braith Anasta, in my opinion, really struggled putting words together up until this year - seems to have stopped trying too hard to be "clever" and just says what he believes. This year he has gone from being cringe worthy to worth listening to.
Ennis is terrible - everyone is "young" and everything is "massive"
No one is as embarrassing as Mark Spud Carroll -
 
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