Robert 'Crash' Craddock
speaker
700 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 3 Aug
Robert 'Crash' Craddock’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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.
That's a, you know, a similar sort of condition.
And he said to me, he's the same age as Bellamy, 66.
And he said, look, he said, he is a marvel to be continuing to coach.
And he said, that's the hard, he said, I'm resting up, I'm retired.
And he said, but he said the stress of a rugby league coach, man, oh man, that is unbelievable.
And knowing that next year, you cannot be better than you are this year.
He said, that would be a supreme challenge.
It's going well, but I tell you what, there's been a couple of stories written up here, and they are very poignant and timely, that Gather Round makes twice as much as what Magic Round does because, you know, it's shopped around to different venues and different parts of Adelaide and outside Adelaide,
Whereas Brisbane's is just restricted to one ground, Suncorp Stadium.
Now, I love the feel of that.
It's a beautiful thing watching one match end and another start.
For me, it's just about the height of the weekend.
I love watching the spectators rush out of the ground, others rush in, and suddenly, oh, it's a fresh game.
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