Robert Craddock

Of course...

He was involved in a famous incident in Bristol about a decade ago where it went to court and he had to stand down and he missed matches.

He was found not guilty of a fray in court, but it was humiliating.

Last year he went on the wagon.

He stopped drinking.

He lost a lot of kilograms.

He even invested in a company which makes non-alcoholic drinks.

He never swore off the booze for good.

But he just – so he's gone several different ways when it comes to the boos, but this was an area where he simply couldn't go.

Like, I was staggered he could be out after midnight because, you know, he's the guy who has to set the standard here.

As soon as he broke that rule –

Everything he'd spoken for, and this is even before the punch-up, but as soon as he was out after midnight, everything he'd said over the last three months meant nothing because he'd broken his own rule.

Yep.

I didn't like it, Gerard.

I felt it was out of touch with the way the world is going and the way sport is going.

When they first started the big bash all those years ago, I remember reading the original document and they said, we believe state rivalries is fading.

And we live in a world now where kids have got the internet and it's a lot less passionate than it used to be.

Now, the object, the obvious unicorn to that is State of Origin Rugby League, which is still passionate.

But I got that point of view.

So to go back to a system where you want a Victorian team playing in the blue, I remember when they started the Big Bash, they said, don't use your own state colours.