The Elephant in the room

[kruddler]

When I started this thread it really wasn't because I thought Cripps was a 'magnificent beast'.

No the "Elephant in the room" is the fact we'd be pretty much f**ked without his presence at this stage of our development.

It's often said a player was a difference between winning and losing.
It's a bit of a throwaway line sometimes, as there are lots of factors in a game.

But I think that you would probably get general agreement that we wouldn't have won the game yesterday without Cripps.
Other players were great contributors...Walsh, Weitering, Ed Curnow, Kreuzer all had very good games.

But Cripps was colossal.

In  junior football you sometimes get that more mature kid who dominates a game.
It was a bit like that.
A man playing with and against a group of kids.

His play not only brought others into the game but enthused the playing group and the supporters.
The young kids developing around him could have no better example.

No doubt Cripps was an absolute beast that won us the game.

On the other side of the coin...
If we got the same output from Cripps in other games this year, how many more wins would we have on the board?

I'd suggest we certainly wouldn't be sitting last on the ladder with only 2 wins.

Of course thats unreasonable to expect that, but its more about the timing of the performance more than anything else.