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    Cooper calls time on brilliant career

    Jun 12, 2019 3 minutes
    WITH FOX LEAGUE’S HANNAH HOLLIS

    I was at boarding school in 2007 when my Billy Slater-obsessed room-mate took me along to Olympic Park for the Melbourne Storm’s opening game of the season against the Wests Tigers.

    It was a rough and tumble match, with both sides bashing each other through the middle and not giving an inch.

    The Storm was chock-full of superstars including internationals Slater, Matt King, Israel Folau, Greg Inglis and Cameron Smith, but it was a young Cooper Cronk, in

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