Bearfax
Grizzly old fart
Personally reckon he's good depth at best for us. From what i've seen I'd take a safe, though capable and potentially destructive player in Croker, over that of one with unreliability through flaws such as inconsistency issues and attacking direction issues. Also, Uate has been fine imo, will improve his involvement as the season progresses (similar to last season)
He's better use to other clubs than us and think his talent would be pretty useless at wing. If Kelly captures the other centre position, wing may be his only option in the upcoming years.
Problem is Harry that when we judge someone like Tom Wright, we are judging him on the spectacular elements we see and assume that is on par with what we should expect from him. The flaws you refer to are to do with lack of involvement at times, but that's because we expect the same outstanding performances all the time. When he is quiet he isnt that much different from other players.
I watched Parker and Croker closely for example in their last game and stated they were solid. But their performances were no better than Tom Wright's performances when Wright is less involved. We get used to seeing the freakish performances of Wright, but then criticise him when he just performs solidly.
What I've seen of Parker and Croker so far, I'll say I'm impressed by their commitment and solid performances. But there is no way they are match winners like Tom Wright. Unfortunately we expect match winning performances from him every time he's on the field.