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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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    The Origin Concept

    NSW would have had it back this year with a little more discipline. Well no, but we were getting noisily impatient - it's since come to light that Mal put titanic names like Locky and Civo (and others ?) on notice after Game 1 '06. Maybe the Great Untold Story in all this lies in the boring...
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    So it has come to this ...

    Thus was the Empress Dowager Cixi reported to have said as she and her court evacuated Beijing under Gen. Pershing's artillery assault during the Boxer rebellion around 1900. For NSW supporters, maybe it's also a tagline for NSW's litany of defeat. While it may be cathartic to savage players...
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    Mitchell Pearce

    So what would it take ... - a catastrophic (for NSW) 20-point-or-so- loss with a couple of Pearce cockups leading to QLD tries ? - the nuclear winter of another 2015 Game III ?
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    QLD Team 2017

    If he keeps the desire - when that goes it's all over - and fitness up, he'll likely not only be the first but the only one.
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    300 days of boasting.

    Well we did keep turning up at Lang Park during the Bad Old Days ... Today - with all the success and expectations set accordingly - well, I think back to the run-up into Game 2 2006 and the three weeks of pretty solid (and it was solid and unremitting) bagging they got. Perhaps, to paraphrase...
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    QLD Team 2017

    Haven't laced on a boot myself - so what would I know - but I'm not so sure. After all this was the case during the '90s yet NSW tended to prevail with 2-1 series wins (with 3-0s in '96 and '00), so Gould at least found a way to effectively mould his sides nonetheless. Moreover I reckon it's...
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    Mitchell Pearce

    That's asking a heck of a lot from someone who's repeatedly - and publicly - nailed his colours to the Pearce mast. One might say anyone would be better, or at least no worse but then the larger question is how has it come to this for NSW who never used to lack for quality playmakers. Maybe...
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    Broncos NRL Matches Discussion + Voting

    I'd be happy if someone just tossed that ground announcer/urger/cheerleader under a bus - I swear nearly every time he does his shtick Something Bad Happens. I guess he just doesn't understand the First Law of crowd support, enunciated by Wally Lewis to the 2001 Origin team, to wit that the...
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    State Of Origin 1995 - 1996 Full games.

    Hah ... remember the '95 series. Was so certain we had absolutely no chance so I didn't even bother to watch Game 1. Just went for a looong walk around the block. Came back in ... looked like there was a minute or two left of game time. Ah well, might as well take a quick peek at the horror...
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    Mitchell Pearce

    I guess that leads to the rather larger question of just how it has come to this for NSW - up to and including Joey, there was pretty much a queue of halves like Holman, Summons, Smith, Raudonikis, Pittard, Fulton etc. and about the only one north of the border who got a look-in (pre-Origin) was...
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    Mitchell Pearce

    Wonder if there's some level of dark muttering in the NSW dressingroom about this, especially where there have been many others go out the revolving door for far less. Nothing overt mind you - what Roy Masters once called the "omerta of the clubhouse" pretty much ensures players will never give...
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    Mitchell Pearce

    Okay guys, let's cut to the chase. If the price to cashier Pearce is another series loss, would you be prepared to pay it?
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    Why has this never been questioned?

    It'll likely hurt a fair few NSW supporters even more as Pearce will likely be all but welded into the side forevermore ... (Nitpick - I thought the captain raised the shield)
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    Changes NSW must make.

    Well not quite ... that distinction belongs to the 88/89 outfit (still the only crew to have done so).

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