Paul Crawley

The young bloke that's the fullback basketball.

And how did the Roosters go just quietly?

Well, but in the fair dinkum stakes, both teams in that game were missing multiple players.

Well, they didn't necessarily fill their pockets because none of these games are a sellout.

Yeah.

See, there's been a great debate going on for many years.

Look, Origin's been there since 1980, you know, so clubs and coaches have been putting up with this for a long time.

And you get a guy like Ricky Stewart, and I know he's had cracks at Robbo in the past about the fact that if you've got all these Origin players, your club actually benefits from that.

I think the 10-day period does allow you if... It doesn't always work out to be this way, but if... It's an indulgence.

If players may be carrying an injury, the 10 days gives them time to recover to the best of their ability.

What about Bennett's...

call for years he's been speaking about trying to make Origin into this three-week block where you play a game every seven days.

No, I don't.

Don't like that one?

No.

See, I don't like that.

I think you could potentially have, and I'm not saying this is what I prefer because I like it the way it is.

Yeah, I do too.

But I think you could have a Pacific Nation series during the middle of it.

You can't have your cake and eat it too because you've got origin in the middle of the season.