The Elephant in the room

[Lods]

Cripps out means someone else plays in his absence.

Sure that match winning performance is the value of two players but it might have meant a different output from a few players with a winning result.

Not saying we would have won without cripps but we did used to say similar about Judd.

Others do step up in the absence of a gun player.

A coach in a development scenario, with nothing on the line may even be tempted to rest a champ just to test that out.
See which players do step up.

We wont see that this year