2014 Origin: Game 2

[jk13]

Good game, the blues finally did it. Though woods gut deflection will b the main topic 2 Moro. The game is alive and well again

 

[Maroubra Eel]

Yeh, I know and I heard that. 17000 Blatcheys Blues and hardly heard them all night.
Why in the f**k do they bother?

Hardly heard them. You are an idiot. Go away.

 

[Gary Gutful]

Can finally go to work after an origin series has been decided and not cop shit from QLD supporting nuffies.

Happy for the NSW team. To go so close for so long and then finally win one must be very rewarding.

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

I sort of agree. Gallen was enormous, but I sat here all night and couldn't believe how good Hoffman was. He was superb.

Suity

Yes. Hoffman cops a lot more shit than from people here than he deserves. I think he was excellent in both games, but particularly last night.

 

[EelsFan05]

Yes. Hoffman cops a lot more shit than from people here than he deserves. I think he was excellent in both games, but particularly last night.

MOM in my opinion. He made tough yardage with every carry, even when all our other forwards seemed to be losing ground.

 

[IFR33K]

MOM in my opinion. He made tough yardage with every carry, even when all our other forwards seemed to be losing ground.

Agreed. Was impressed with Hoffman. best player by far.

Can't believe they gave MOM to Gallen. He and bird touched the ball way too much IMO.

 

[hineyrulz]

Gallen getting MOTM was laughable, he, bird and Farah overplayed their hand far to much and the halves didn't have the balls to tell them to get out of the way. Hoffman was easily best on the park, not a great game to watch but who gives a rats. Living in cornfed country has just became a little bit easier.

 

[yy_cheng]

what about hayne telling his players to get back from the biff

 

[hineyrulz]

what about hayne telling his players to get back from the biff

Glad someone did, that idiot Gallen wanted to continue on with it :crazy:

 

[Maroubra Eel]

They are going to biff. It's just all push and shove. Waste of time.

 

[Gronk]

Reynolds has been shit tonight.

How many time did he f**k up service to Hayne ? Rubbish.

 

[Tony Bongo]

I thought Greg Bird deserved MOM just for the way he pulled a players leg with his ear. :crazy:

 

[Gronk]

Gallen getting MOTM was laughable, he, bird and Farah overplayed their hand far to much and the halves didn't have the balls to tell them to get out of the way. Hoffman was easily best on the park, not a great game to watch but who gives a rats. Living in cornfed country has just became a little bit easier.

Agree with this. Too much selfish play by the wannabe heroes.

There's no " i " in team, merkins.

 

[ElectricEelMan]

Hoffman was MOM.
He actually gave us awesome go forward when we needed it the most.
Gallen and Bird were f*cking annoying how they played like halves.
Hodkinson went missing (probably because Gallen and Bird decided they were the halves) but he gave us the victory when he decided to turn up
Josh Reynolds is useless BUT no doubt there will be calls that he is an 'origin player' and be selected for the next ten years.
Without Jarryd Hayne NSW would be down 2-0

I honestly think this is one of the worse NSW teams in SOO's history. We only won because of Hayne, desperate defense, and because QLD played like idiots.

I despised NSW's game plan. It was grossly negative and it shouldn't have worked. We were just plain lucky that QLD had an off night (they looked ten times more dangerous in attack than us).

I still think QLD will continue to dominant over the next five years, even when some of their bigger names retire unless .....

.... we find two good halves.

 

[Bigfella]

I disagree. I don't think they had any choice. The halves were atrocious and held us back all night.

I don't blame them for taking on the responsibility.

Halves kicked abominably, didn't take the line on, linked poorly and slowly, and stifled hayne completely.

If we had their halves we could have won quite completely with the ball we had in the second half.

 

[Gronk]

Can you believe that QLD didn't target Hoppa for the whole 2nd half ? I think they kicked down his way twice with no kick chase.

 

[Bigfella]

What about how the protecting the kicker rule just got completely abandoned for the night?

More kickers got tackled last night without penalty than the rest of the season will see in the nrl I reckon

 

[Gronk]

I disagree. I don't think they had any choice. The halves were atrocious and held us back all night.

I don't blame them for taking on the responsibility.

Halves kicked abominably, didn't take the line on, linked poorly and slowly, and stifled hayne completely.

If we had their halves we could have won quite completely with the ball we had in the second half.

Chicken and egg scenario. Farrah was tossing it Bird and Gallen for most of the set. What are the halves to do without the ball ?

 

[Twizzle]

2 things helped us.

Maroons couldn't hold the ball, and David Taylor.

 

[Gronk]

What about how the protecting the kicker rule just got completely abandoned for the night?

More kickers got tackled last night without penalty than the rest of the season will see in the nrl I reckon

+1. I though the refs were pretty poor. QLD had a 3rd man in late flop on every tackle and then counted to 3 after the ref called held. Worked a treat to slow us down.