Saw this little snippet in Fitz Files today. Mind boggling that he is lunching with those Melbourne grubs to curry favour. I hope he took 3 players from all 16 clubs to lunch to seek their "approval". Equally as funny is he thinks Cooper Cronk is smart because he wants to know if a proposed rule change has been properly thought through and likely to be demonstrably successful. News flash for you Turd, that sort of smarts is possessed by 90% of the rugby league watching population. - we constantly ask ourselves the same thing.
Cooper Cronk MBA - CEO of the NRL - LMFAO. - next level thinker
TFF did a little light palling around with Todd Greenberg at an event in Melbourne on Monday, and was suitably impressed on a number of things – none more than when he told me that on the following day the NRL would be announcing its commitment to support the Uluru Statement from the Heart to give the First People a voice on matters of the moment that affect them.
Soon enough, though, the conversation turned to the current crop of footballers and just who was shining through.
When I mentioned that he should groom the retiring Cooper Cronk to one day take over his own job – he’s got the smarts, the resume, the respect of the whole league community – Greenberg said he couldn’t agree more, and mentioned that he’d offered to put him through a MBA on the condition that he come to work for the NRL. He’d first realised, he said, just what level Cronk operated on a few years ago when he had taken Cronk, Cameron Smith and Billy Slater to dinner to seek their support for some rule changes the NRL wanted. Greenberg explained the changes over the main course and both Smith and Slater expressed immediate enthusiasm.
Not Cronk.
Instead, he leant back in his chair, mulled it over and then said, “That sounds fine, Todd, but how will this affect the game overall? And how will you measure whether or not the rule change is successful?”
This time it was Greenberg who leaned back.
“He thinks at another level,” he says simply, “strategically. He’d be wonderful in the NRL.”