Paul Crawley

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.

They got a story out there through the media, through a little bloke that's sitting here.

That's you, not me.

It was called Teflon Bill.

Mate, I'm telling you now, Billy was filthy at that at the time.

Yeah.

Filthy at that at the time.

So he can be rattled, but New South Wales hasn't managed to do it.

And this might have been at the time when Neil was still an assistant coach at the Cowboys before he'd even become a head coach.

I think it put Neil on the map, to be honest.

But this goes on quite a bit.

Well, it does.