This has been a train wreck for Billy Slater. He is imploding. He waited a week to answer with a scripted response to Aaron Woods. Ridiculous. If QLD go on to lose tonight, this story will continue to linger. Billy Slater may end up resigning as coach.

He is way out of his depth. He got baited into a nonsense bit of banter and can't stop digging

He’s already been figured out as fraud of a coach, both his ability and mentality are not the calibre of an Origin coach. QLD would do well to drop him for next year

Absolutely pathetic and shameful. To play the victim in an origin spat - he brought a game legends health struggles with CTE into a media session. His family would be shattered and rightly so. He was a grub on the field. He’s a grub off the field.

Billy is 1000/1 to be QLD coach next year

He should have never mentioned Paul Green.. & I know he has this morning has apologised but sorry too late... He has implied that Paul Green was being bullied

So what’s the narrative now?

Aaron Woods responding to Billy Slater responding to Aaron Woods. I’ve enjoyed the build up to game 2 🙂

When you’re talking about mental health you have to be very careful what you say and be aware of the impact your words could have.. With respect, a SOO press conference is not the place for that conversation.

Some might say what he did was a grub act. Confirming Aaron woods comments.

Also shows that while he may not have presented it well and claimed he was handling what was being said in the media - maybe it is significantly impacting his mental health and maybe, like most males, pretending it wasn’t. Perhaps yesterday was closer to the truth than realised