Robert Craddock

Well, that's fair enough.

You've won a test.

But they had to respect that midnight curfew, Gerard, and they didn't.

Do you?

Well, Stokes has had a very complex relationship with alcohol.

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.