Paul Crawley

They've created this for Laurie, I reckon, because he seems to lack this confidence to just go out and do it.

That's doing him no favours, releasing a team that way, I reckon.

Well, we are.

I'll go back to Billy too because so at the moment you look at how they're ranking in the media.

Prior to the game.

And Billy certainly, you know, he's got the edge on Laurie in his media performances so far.

But it wasn't like that, mate, when Madge was coaching against him.

No.

And Madge started the glass houses and all that sort of stuff.

And he put Billy off with his preparation.

I'll tell you why I reckon that.

He is great on every level.

He's a great bloke.

He's a great performer as a coach, as a player.

One thing he never loved was criticism.

Yeah.

He didn't as a player and I don't think he does as a coach and I think it can put him off.

And I know going back to another media wars story with Laurie, when Laurie was coaching the Blues previously and Billy was playing and at the time Billy was getting away with a few little things of his own.

Yeah.

It might have been the elbow to the head of Mitch Pearce that got New South Wales rolled at the time anyway.