BLUES coach Laurie Daley has accused top-rating radio host Ray Hadley of destabilising the NSW team’s Origin campaign over a bitter falling-out with assistant coach Matt Parish because of his relationship with the shock jock’s ­estranged wife.

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Ahead of next Tuesday’s announcement of the Blues team for Origin I, Daley last night ­described Hadley as “way out of line” and accused the veteran league commentator of “unsettling our entire campaign”.

Daley said he was ­disappointed with Hadley for “attempting to exert his influence and power to have Parish disciplined or stood down.’’

Hadley claimed his ­estranged wife Suzanne had been seen at NRL events on Parish’s arm, a spectacle that is understood to have ­angered Hadley.

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The Daily Telegraph can reveal Hadley raised Parish in a telephone conversation with NSWRL CEO David Trodden last week. NSWRL directors held an unscheduled board meeting on Monday, with the Parish matter added to the agenda as an urgent item.

Daley was privy to discussions via telephone and made his support for Parish clear, with the board voting unanimously to support Daley and keep the current staff intact.

Daley yesterday restated his backing for Parish who, in another intriguing twist, was first recommended to the Blues in 2011 by Hadley’s 2GB stablemate Alan Jones. Jones also coached Parish at the Balmain Tigers in the early 1990s. “This is unsettling our entire campaign,” Daley said.

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“Matt Parish is not only a friend but a great coach who has my full support and the support of the NSWRL.

“Ray Hadley is way out of line. He’s using his influence and power to undermine Matt Parish and me. But this is an issue between Matt Parish and Ray Hadley.”

Mr Hadley last night denied having put any pressure on NSW officials to dump Parish from the Origin staff but admitted he had spoken to Mr Trodden about Parish and his ex-wife.

“I simply asked Dave Trodden to advise Matt Parish to be more circumspect in matters involving my wife. I deny I asked for him to be sacked,” he said.

“This is a very difficult situation for me and my children and all I did was ask someone to pull his coat with relation to my wife and to be a bit more dignified in his actions.’’

Daley also said he had been disappointed that Hadley had used his radio program in recent days to attack him personally and to denigrate his coaching campaign with NSW. “Ray Hadley has never attacked me before so I don’t think it is a coincidence that it has happened this week,’’ Daley said.

Hadley said he had been contacted by Daley early last Tuesday when Daley expressed his sympathy for Hadley’s “personal predicament’’.

Suzanne Hadley applied for an AVO against Hadley and his policeman son Daniel on February 20. She withdrew it before it could be heard in a court and the couple separated days later. Both Trodden and NSWRL chairman, Dr George Peponis, gave Daley the support of their administration.

“I have the utmost respect for Laurie Daley as a person and as a coach and I support his handling of what is a very difficult situation,” Mr Trodden said.

Dr Peponis added: “Laurie and David have kept the board abreast of the developments. The board is fully supportive of Laurie’s position.”

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Parish declined to comment when contacted by The Daily Telegraph yesterday.

Hadley has used his top-rating 9am to midday slot on 2GB to discuss Daley, Trodden and the NSWRL on no less than three occasions this week.

The first mention came shortly after he went to air on Monday, following his earlier conversation with Trodden about Parish.

Hadley criticised Daley for publicly commenting on Greg Bird’s dangerous throw tackle in that morning’s written press.

“Then you add the NSW coach Laurie Daley who has unfortunately involved himself in the judicial process by putting pressure on the match review committee,” Hadley said.

“You can just imagine Queensland up there smoking their pipes and doing handstands, marvelling how NSW can self destruct. It’s not right for the NSW coach to be putting pressure on (the match review committee) by offering his opinion.”

After discussing half-back Mitchell Pearce’s arrest the previous night, Hadley then addressed Trodden publicly.

“The new NSWRL CEO (David Trodden) will have his (inaudible) tested while he wades through this mess,” Hadley said.

“Mr Trodden has some very important decisions to make in the next 24 hours. We hope he’s up to the task. We’ll see if he’s up to the task.”

Having enjoyed a healthy relationship with Hadley over his long and decorated involvement in rugby league, Daley was taken aback.

“He is using his personal ­attacks on me on air as a way of getting to Matt Parish,” ­he commented.

“I find that very strange and convenient, given he has never attacked me before.”

On the same Monday program, Hadley suggested internal problems at the Canberra Raiders, where Parish also works as an assistant coach. “There’s a story that the assistant coaches (Matt Parish and Dean Pay) don’t speak,” Hadley said.

“If people don’t speak it’s evidence, after past performances, that something might have to give there.”

Yesterday Hadley again used his show to aim up on Daley and Trodden over NSW’s ­disrupted preparation.

“David Trodden, the NSWRL CEO, has to take some responsibility there,” Hadley said.

“They’ve had disruption after disruption. NSW has had drama after drama after drama, the latest involving Mitchell Pearce.

“While NSW are running around like headless chooks wondering what they’re going to do, with indecision from the coach (Daley), Queensland are sitting up there without a worry in the world.”