Craig Hutchison

I'm just signing off.

Look, you know me well enough.

I'd like to sign off on things, and if I feel it needs to be done a certain way, I'll suggest it.

You could have had this conversation with me last week.

Absolutely nothing.

And I said that again.

I actually said that to you last week as well.

But I didn't want and I didn't think it was fair for the nine operation to see that had they seen it without me alerting them to it.

So that was all it was.

And I said that in those conversations, Sachi.

Well, I haven't changed anything, and it will not stop me criticizing Seven if I need to, Hutchie.

And again, to their credit, no one at SCA has said to me, back off on Channel 7.

And I'm not prolific on it, by the way, but if I see a chance and I've got reason to respond to something that someone on Seven may say about me, which happens pretty regularly, I will.

Okay.

move on to a Channel 9 topic now, which I found fascinating last week.

The State of Origin, Hutchie, you know how much I love it.

I've loved it from the late 80s and early 90s, and it just gets bigger every single year.

It never, ever fails to deliver.

The most recent State of Origin, Origin 1 of 2026, New South Wales in another epic, coming back to win the game, having been 20 down, 20 to nil down at one stage.

The storyline, though, as we know, and as everyone, I think, listening to this who follows both sports would know, was the Caelan Ponga send-off with 23, 24 minutes to go.