{"id":42094,"date":"2021-03-07T20:16:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T21:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=42094"},"modified":"2021-03-07T23:03:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T23:03:48","slug":"cronks-nrl-double-agent-role-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=42094","title":{"rendered":"Cronk&#039;s NRL double agent role exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cooper-cronk\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Cooper Cronk\">Cooper Cronk<\/a> is paid from Melbourne&#x27;s football cap to mentor its halves despite holding a similar deal with the Sydney Roosters, Storm chief executive Justin Rodski says.<\/p>\n<p>A furore over Cronk ignited when he was spotted in action at Storm training last week.<\/p>\n<p>His manager, George Mimis, initially claimed that Cronk was a club corporate ambassador only, with no formal coaching role. The Storm have now revealed otherwise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/storm\/status\/1367253965511954438?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/storm\/status\/1367253965511954438?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Cooper has a mentoring role with our halves Cameron [Munster] and Jahrome [Hughes],&quot; Rodski told The Daily Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He&#x27;s not here all that often but he&#x27;s a legend of the game and has a great footy brain. To have him mentoring these guys is extremely valuable for us.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;A component of his deal has been lodged and approved by the NRL as part of our footy cap.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The Telegraph reported that Roosters coach Trent Robinson had no problem with Cronk&#x27;s dual roles, yet Roosters officials are privately concerned, having thought that their coaching deal with the four-time premiership winner was exclusive.<\/p>\n<p>Cronk works at the Tricolours with Luke Keary, with whom he won the 2018-19 titles, and will try to cement Lachie Lam as the club&#x27;s No.6 this season. Brilliant youngster Sam Walker is also in the Roosters system.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Cooper Cronk is paid from Melbourne&#x27;s football cap to mentor its halves despite holding a similar deal with the Sydney Roosters, Storm chief executive Justin <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=42094\" title=\"Cronk&#039;s NRL double agent role exposed\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42095,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42094\/revisions\/42095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}