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    Queensland Maroons 2023

    Yes I guess the first shot over the QLD bows was the Walker-Martin no-try in the 3d minute or so. NSW had "come to play". Although QLD then scored on their first visit, the vulnerability of our right side soon became apparent with JAC being released on several occasions with a certainty and...
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    History to be repeated ? 100 years back ... Queensland clean sweep

    Ah yes the so-called "Pointless Series". My enduring memory thereof was in Game 1 (Lang Park), when QLD received penalties and on about 4 or 5 occasions failed to find touch ... Langlands must hae thought he was back at Kogarah doing catching practice.
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    NSW game 2 team

    LM can't do it by himself any more than Wally in his prime could (see: 1986 series).
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    Queensland Maroons 2023

    QLD's assignment now is not to get cheeky and (a) Remember the crowd doesn't play for you, and (b) Don't forget the ball, field and tryline don't know who you are, what jersey you're in etc. and care even less.
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    Tedesco fullback

    RL props have tended to come in two forms: the stocky, low-to-the-ground type (e.g. Webcke) vs. the taller, more rangy (e.g. Harragon or Petero); while it certainly would be embarrasing to be done by the former, the latter ... well not nearly so much. After all, Lindsay had a pretty decent...
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    NSW given every advantage fluff their opportunities.

    If there's any sniff of truth about that then all I can say is that official security (i.e. for ref, touchies + bunker staff) had better be airtight or they won't get out of Lang Park alive if there's any sort of an overt interference. My own dull take on it is that after all the sound and fury...
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    NSW game 2 team

    Yes, combos are a bonus, they might come into play if there's a selection dilemma. Players like Lockyer, Thurston, Smith + Cronk only ever played together at Origin/Test time and they certainly combined effectively. It's as though truly great players (as distinct from very good) are on their...
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    2022 Origin III - Wed 13 Jul - QLD 22-12 NSW @ Suncorp

    As I recall, it was after Game 3 2005 that CM poobah Barry Dick (the name seems strangely apropo) scrawled something to the effect that further SoO series defeats (3 consecutive to that point) had the potential not only to kill Origin but to "take down Qld football with it". WIsh I'd kept that...
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    2022 Origin III - Wed 13 Jul - QLD 22-12 NSW @ Suncorp

    Looked like Nate C. was waay too late with the kick choice, by the time ball got to boot Ben H. was almost on top of him.
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    2022 Origin III - Wed 13 Jul - QLD 22-12 NSW @ Suncorp

    Yep, sometimes I wonder if sometimes the training - and even the warmups - are at least a risk as the playing itself ...
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    2022 Origin III - Wed 13 Jul - QLD 22-12 NSW @ Suncorp

    Yes, Crichton's boo-boo ... that ball rolling around in the in-goal like a grenade ready to detonate ...
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    2022 Origin III - Wed 13 Jul - QLD 22-12 NSW @ Suncorp

    Perhaps the "combinations" thing only trul flies when all members of said combo are good enough to make the side on their own, e.g. Smith - Cronk - Slater (or from an earlier time, Sterling - Kenny).
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    Rating Freddy After 3 Seasons-

    It's all Ancient History now, but I still wonder if the last quarter of Game II that year was an opportunity missed by the NSW captain (Cordner) as much as anything else: after all he was the one on the field and could see first-hand that NSW were drifting, but - this not being Yankee-ball - he...
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    Worst players to play Origin

    Yes, he also suffered the indignity of being switched to the opposite wing midway through the 2nd half.
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    Worst players to play Origin

    Prob. Rex Wright, NSW hooker for Game 1 '84. Straight in from NSW Country I think. After getting skunked 29-12 by QLD, I recall Vautin claiming he heard Wright's teammates bagging him out on the field.
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    A game well played by NSW

    Have to dolefully agree ... the breaks usually go with the side making the running and all too often that was not us.
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    A game well played by NSW

    Yes ... and unlike last year, this year's opponent has a near-new lineup, no Pearce/Woods etc. baggage, a coach with some clear idea, and flame-tested confidence ...
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    Name Your NSW Team of the Origin Era

    Noel Cleal ... Anyway, I thought the real reason was a certain Wally Fullerton-Smith.
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    So it has come to this ...

    You could go back to the end of the War and there was a fairly steady stream of NSW greats, from Summons, Holman, (Billy) Smith, Fulton, Raudonikis to the more readily recognisable names of Sterling, Mortimer, Fittler, Daley and then of course Johns. But when Joey gave it away in '05 it was...
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    The Origin Concept

    I'm no part of a team builder, psychologist or suchlike, but I think it a reasonable expectation that a bunch of (well-paid) pros work together effectively to achieve a stated goal with personal stuff laid to one side (hold the nose if that's what it takes). I'd also suggest what's really...

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