Lachlan Croker

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Parker dog average he never be class, agree not having kid on bench.
Parker will never win us a game..... but again we needed heart and effort tonight... he certainly never loses out on that scorecard. Paseka, Sipley, Croker were very poor and Keppie defended great but offered zero in attack as well. So out of our fowards - 3 of them offered nothing and Lawton was injured and Keppie was a liability in attack. Pretty hard for the backs to show anything when the forwards were mugged.
 
Parker will never win us a game..... but again we needed heart and effort tonight... he certainly never loses out on that scorecard. Paseka, Sipley, Croker were very poor and Keppie defended great but offered zero in attack as well. So out of our fowards - 3 of them offered nothing and Lawton was injured and Keppie was a liability in attack. Pretty hard for the backs to show anything when the forwards were mugged.
After seeing tonight game, Des had to fastrack sergyaro into nrl squad
 
No, Parker is serviceable. It is Harper who is completely off the pace. Just not up to 1st grade standard. Bringing Koula on with 7 minutes to go was farcical coaching.
Yeah one of them has to go, that's Hasler so ****ing frustrating. It never bloody change look how long it took schuster to get a crack
 
Des also made a terrible error in selecting Koula and not Davey. We had a passenger on the bench for 70 minutes when we needed another forward in the rotation. Croker was terrible but he had a few pasengers in that pack. Anyone still saying we need to ditch Marty needs some help... he was the only forward who had a dig all game besides Jake.
I was also thinking this, davey is an older head and a tough bastard he would of been the better choice for that bench spot. Not a frickin center 🤦‍♂️
 
I was also thinking this, davey is an older head and a tough bastard he would of been the better choice for that bench spot. Not a frickin center 🤦‍♂️
Maybe Des was thinking of having an impact player late in a close contest? Unfortunately that scenario did not unfold...
 
There are none in our squad at the moment. Jake cannot play hooker. We all saw what Api did - he darts and probes and delivers great service. Croker offers no darting and terrible service and no way Jake can dart anywhere.
he has also mastered the art of running sideways and managing to have the ball float forward when he passes!
i don't know how touchie's that stand parallel to the play can't see it go forward, or are they too useless to do anything about it.
 
FFS ,It's our first game back against the premiers.
They would have beaten every team in the comp last night.
He did fine last year.
Back at it next week ,onwards and upwards.
The problem is against the top teams he isn't good enough. I think hes an OK player he tries his ass off but to win this comp you need a top tier hooker (not stilettos 😄) and he isnt close unfortunately.

Where would we rank him amongst the competition hookers? Bottom 8? Bottom 6?

Smith cook Mahoney grant hodgson watson Verillis Api brailey Randall the other brailey?
 
No, Parker is serviceable. It is Harper who is completely off the pace. Just not up to 1st grade standard. Bringing Koula on with 7 minutes to go was farcical coaching.
Harper was terrible however my concern with koula is that he is pretty small. So whilst he is obviously quicker than Harper will he be any better in defence. Possibly not.
 
I have no issue with Crokers effort... he is just not a hooker...

He plays the odd good game there but that is more on bad decisions by the defensive team I reckon...

Nobody can (or at least should) question his effort...
Agree frank. its ok for him to come out and say , I will improve my running game this year but with a specialist hooker, the running game comes naturally, thats why its a specialist position. I have no problem with Croker either, like Ryan said, he tries his guts out every game, but he isnt a specialist hooker
 
A season opener at the premiers home ground after no fans could attend the GF, i reckon we were up against it ???
It would be nice to see all us aim up and get to Brookvale and show our men how well they went last year, and how much faith we have in them. We were after all, one game from the big dance.
 
Manly should consider Segeyaro playing 14 since he does have that running game and creativity at hooker.
Funny you should say that. I was looking at our squad yesterday. Not sure where and it showed the top 30 + development squad + about 6 players from Blacktown. Seggy was one of those Blacktown players, perhaps it’s a contingency for covid. Nonetheless at least it shows he is in our plans
 
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