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It was a sentiment echoed by former premiership winner Cronk, who wonders if a link to the Dragons is a good thing for the fullback.<\/p>\n
\u201cGoing to the Dragons, that\u2019d be a risk for Drinkwater because he likes to play front-foot, fast, free-flowing… and the Dragons are not playing well at the moment,\u201d Cronk said<\/p>\n
\u201cThey don\u2019t have athletic forwards like (Jason) Taumalolo or (Heilum) Luki to generate ruck speed, so that would be a risk.<\/p>\n
However former Broncos mentor Kevin Walters thinks the attacking upside Drinkwater brings to a team could spur the Dragons onto more points.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019d certainly make a difference to the Dragons, absolutely,\u201d Walters said.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom an attacking point of view they\u2019ve scored the least amount of points of any team in the competition\u2026. he\u2019d be a good signing I reckon for a club that needs to score points.\u201d<\/p>\n
The six-time premiership winner with a valid point, considering the Dragons have only scored 86 points across five games played so far this season, for an average of under 15 points scored each game.<\/p>\n
Their lack of attacking flair was particularly punished by Drinkwater of all people last week, when the Cowboys humbled St-George Illawarra 32-0 in Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a headline Todd Payten and the Cowboys didn\u2019t want heading into their Queensland derby against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,689,291749,651,4428,9124,38151,11101,292114,291699,44328,54308,122392,269497,763,2105,28053,262360,3194,4601,6407,292113,761,762,673,254122,764,158,677,52764,701,2528,73373,194448,7623,1085,97437,62647,87576,292115,85,670,75159,777,7619],"class_list":{"0":"post-599008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","11":"tag-blasts-disrupter","12":"tag-brisbane","13":"tag-brisbane-broncos","14":"tag-chris-hyde","15":"tag-contract-statement","16":"tag-cooper-cronk","17":"tag-coverage-post-match","18":"tag-cowboys-star","19":"tag-defensive-line","20":"tag-defensive-side","21":"tag-emphatic-response","22":"tag-exit-rumours","23":"tag-fox-league","24":"tag-getty-images-inc","25":"tag-jake-clifford","26":"tag-jarrod-pollard","27":"tag-kevin-walters","28":"tag-manly-sea-eagles","29":"tag-michael-maguire","30":"tag-modern-day-fullback","31":"tag-national-rugby-league","32":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","33":"tag-new-south-wales","34":"tag-noise-heading","35":"tag-north-queensland-cowboys","36":"tag-nrl","37":"tag-oceania","38":"tag-premiership-winner","39":"tag-queensland","40":"tag-rival-clubs","41":"tag-ruck-speed","42":"tag-rumours-swirl","43":"tag-run-metres","44":"tag-scott-drinkwater","45":"tag-shaun-johnson","46":"tag-sides-loss","47":"tag-sides-victory","48":"tag-six-time-premiership-winner","49":"tag-sports","50":"tag-sydney","51":"tag-tackle-breaks","52":"tag-todd-payten","53":"tag-try-assist"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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