'14 // Origin II // Wed 18 // NSW 6-4 QLD // ANZ

[Bulldog Force]

Will be a cracker. I will tip NSW at home, but QLD will still be dangerous even if their best 2 attacking weapons, Slater and Inglis, aren't playing. They needed neither of them to score tries in game 1.

 

[kia ora storm]

Will be a cracker. I will tip NSW at home, but QLD will still be dangerous even if their best 2 attacking weapons, Slater and Inglis, aren't playing. They needed neither of them to score tries in game 1.

Agree but how many times have those two got them out of strife...a lot.

Who else do they have ?...Thurston, Thurston and Thurston.

 

[Sleep]

Wow. How bad is the depth in the halves position across the entire NRL when Ben Hunt is in line to get a start in Origin and the NSW combination struggled to unseat Pearce.

Outside of Thurston none of the potential starting four are anything better than solid. I know Cronk and Cherry-Evans are both hurt and the QLD three are leagues ahead of the rest but it's incredible how bad it's gotten compared to eras gone by.

 

[Hutty1986]

Wow. How bad is the depth in the halves position across the entire NRL when Ben Hunt is in line to get a start in Origin and the NSW combination struggled to unseat Pearce.

Outside of Thurston none of the potential starting four are anything better than solid. I know Cronk and Cherry-Evans are both hurt and the QLD three are leagues ahead of the rest but it's incredible how bad it's gotten compared to eras gone by.

The standard has dropped significantly across the board since Nathan Fien retired.

 

[ggmu]

Wow. How bad is the depth in the halves position across the entire NRL when Ben Hunt is in line to get a start in Origin and the NSW combination struggled to unseat Pearce.

Outside of Thurston none of the potential starting four are anything better than solid. I know Cronk and Cherry-Evans are both hurt and the QLD three are leagues ahead of the rest but it's incredible how bad it's gotten compared to eras gone by.

Have you watched Ben Hunt play this year?

 

[Canard]

Wow. How bad is the depth in the halves position across the entire NRL when Ben Hunt is in line to get a start in Origin and the NSW combination struggled to unseat Pearce.

Outside of Thurston none of the potential starting four are anything better than solid. I know Cronk and Cherry-Evans are both hurt and the QLD three are leagues ahead of the rest but it's incredible how bad it's gotten compared to eras gone by.

QLD have always had depth issues, especially at spine positions.

Over the years, guys like Karmichael Hunt, Julian O'Neill and Shaun Berrigan have played at the 6 and 7 positions.

So this is hardly new. That what makes Origin so good IMO, is that you sometimes discover a as yet unheralded or unfashionable star.

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

People still doubting Hunts ability this year.

We're basically on every f**king friday night, how have you not noticed

 

[Pugzley]

QLD by 6

 

[kia ora storm]

People still doubting Hunts ability this year.

We're basically on every f**king friday night, how have you not noticed

He's been going okay in the AFL...is there another Hunt ?.

 

[The.X.Factor9]

lol If GI and Slater are injured and we don't win, then I don't think we will ever win.

 

[matrightyeh]

qld to win to even things up

 

[ceagle]

All I hope is that Gould does his f**king last word this time

 

[LatK7]

NSW should win...but I sense a Game II ambush like last year.

 

[Smooth Operator • • •]

True fact: If NSW beats QLD they will win this series.

Fact #2: Saint Dugan to bag a hattrick - NSW 30, QLD 12

 

[Twatface Magee]

Game of the round imo

 

[Rhino_NQ]

looking forward to seeing lillyman in my colours again

 

[BunniesMan]

We're going to knock em off and we'll do it comfortably. Refusing to pick Inglis at fullback is negligence.

 

[Snappy]

Doctors allowing BM's mother to ever give birth was negligence

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

Doctors allowing BM's mother to ever give birth was negligence

Maybe they thought the sight of him leaving her vaginal shaft and landing head first on the hospital floor would be a funny sight.

 

[Nice Beaver]

Tipping DCE to not play and Hunt to halfback.