Robert 'Crash' Craddock

Hello, Gerard.

Up to the start of what's going to be a very busy week up here with Magic Round, and it was a tumultuous weekend in sport.

Plenty happening, mate.

Yeah, long overdue, wasn't it?

Seven losses in a row.

You just can't think of putting that sentence with the words Melbourne Storm.

But they're back.

They look good.

It was a weakened West Tigers team.

Cam Munster played well, which should assure he's the Queensland State of Origin captain.

I don't think there was too many doubts about it.

But, yeah, Bellamy's future is interesting, Gerard.

Before the game, he gave a press conference and he spoke about it.

briefly and sort of vaguely.

But what he didn't commit to was, you know, the absolute certainty that he would coach on in the future beyond this season.

And he has a neurodegenerative condition.

No one is quite sure what it is.

The specifics have not been released.

But the only certainty is that it won't get better.

And it was funny, just less than an hour ago, I was down the coffee shop with a man with Parkinson's disease.