'13 | Origin II | Wed 26 Jun | QLD 26-6 NSW | Suncorp

[Parra Pride]

is there anyone on this earth you would want hit by a truck more than hodges??

Cameron Smith, Billy Slater, Cooper Cronk, Will Chambers, Ryan Hoffman... The rest of the 2009 Grand Final winning Melbourne team.

 

[Pete Cash]

So will the Merritt brigade now admit he's physically lacking

 

[The.X.Factor9]

CAN SOMEONE KNOCK HODGES THE f**k OUT !!!! Every time he has been tackled he has started a fight with the markers.

 

[BranVan3000]

Most of us did, we just knew that realistically the chances of that were very small.

The whole team has been terrible, but we'll scapegoat the winger instead of the halves doing nothing

 

[Diesel]

Not a great 1/2 for Origin. NSW lucky that Qld can't put them away

 

[Walt Flanigan]

The execution from the NSW halves is atrocious. You'd think they'd never seen a football before.

 

[Parra Pride]

Wait...I'm watching the game, what has Merritt done that was so extraordinarily bad? Or are we all just merrily circle-jerking here?

Terrible reads in defence?

 

[the dude]

Totally outclassed.

J.Morris can f off. Merritt is poor, Dugan gets carried back 15m every time he hits the ball up and Pearce is an absolute spastic

 

[Pete Cash]

Wait...I'm watching the game, what has Merritt done that was so extraordinarily bad? Or are we all just merrily circle-jerking here?

Struggled returning the ball, constantly caught off his wing

 

[DJShaksta]

That last play sums it up.
Fifita runs it up hard, the siren goes, he hits and spins and gets an offload and Josh Morris runs it straight into 3 players.
FFS mate, have a go.

 

[BuffaloRules]

Merritt- best debut for NSW since Phil Duke 1982

 

[Doomednow]

Shitty officiating but our halves and Merrit are playing like shit.

 

[perverse]

Pearce and Maloney have both been total duds tonight. Merritt has just been laughable and is playing completely out of his class.

 

[BranVan3000]

Wait...I'm watching the game, what has Merritt done that was so extraordinarily bad? Or are we all just merrily circle-jerking here?

He has been out of position

But there is an overlap out on the left every time Thurston gets the ball

 

[ElectricEelMan]

Some players just do not belong in Origin.
Pearce is one of those players.

Meanwhile there is a NSW halfback not playing in this game who is tailor made for Origin.

I have no doubt in five years we will all be saying/thinking 'remember when Mitchell Pearce was selected ahead of Adam Reynolds. What the fu*k were they thinking!'

 

[slammingsam]

Merritt has let in one try...

 

[DJShaksta]

Totally outclassed.

J.Morris can f off. Merritt is poor, Dugan gets carried back 15m every time he hits the ball up and Pearce is an absolute spastic

Dugan has been one of our best.

 

[Jason Maher]

The whole team has been terrible, but we'll scapegoat the winger instead of the halves doing nothing

He let in one try, and nearly let in 3 more. No scapegoating going on.

 

[Walt Flanigan]

Lucky to only be down by 14.

 

[Manu Vatuvei]

Struggled returning the ball, constantly caught off his wing

Sounds like the old "blame the winger every time the backline doesn't number up properly". Couldn't blame Merritt for every break down that side of the field myself, unless I had a pre-existing agenda.