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2018 Origin I - QLD 12-22 NSW @ MCG

Series: QLD v NSW

  • Total voters
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King hit

King hit

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The Vaulting Violinist said:
Haha. Gotta love it. Can’t wait to be at the pub tonight listening to flogs who haven’t watched a game for a year banging on after two schooners
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Our neighbors daughter is one of those people who you would guess has never seen a Broncos game or GF once in her life but every time Origin is on she is QLD's biggest fan. One year i asked her who the Maroons captain is. Jarryd Hayne was her answer and she thought Slater was a Cowboy.
 
David brown

David brown

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King hit said:
Our neighbors daughter is one of those people who you would guess has never seen a Broncos game or GF once in her life but every time Origin is on she is QLD's biggest fan. One year i asked her who the Maroons captain is. Jarryd Hayne was her answer and she thought Slater was a Cowboy.
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Did you smash though ?
 
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big hit!

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mxlegend99 said:
So how the f**k can NSW be such raging favorites. QLD might be missing zome greats. But the players missing are irrelevant. The teams picked are.

NSW have 11 rookies.

QLD spine:
Morgan has played Origin before. In various positions winning the series. Won a grand final.
Munster has also played and won both an Origin series and a grand final.
Hunt has played Origin and been in a losing grand final side...
McCullough has played and lost a grand final


NSW spine:
Tedesco has played Origin (in a losing side) and never even played finals footy.
Maloney is our only experienced player having played in a few losing series and in 3 grand finals
Cleary has zero grand final or Origin experience
Cook the same.

Queensland think who's missing makes it impossible to win. But whos available are still far more established than the NSW side.

That's before considering the rookie blues wingers and centres up sgainst established Origin players in the Queensland team.

Those areas are where the points are scored snd Queensland have a landslide victory as far as experience and combinations go. NSW picked on form... but club form has proven irrelevant in Otigin many times before. We could have picked 11 future greats... or up to 11 players looked back on as the biggest failed experiment in Origin history.

I know the money dictates the odds. But god damn. Prople need to look beyond who's missing and look at who's playing.

This Queensland team is still pretty handy.
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that QLD spine need their forwards to lay the platform or else they won't have any influence on the game. and i'm not talking about a napa hit or shit like that.

they need to be consistent and in this regard mcguire is the only one they have that they can rely upon and he's been out for a month so won't play as many mins as he normally can. that bench middle rotation in particular looks suss, especially papalii & hess. how many minutes will they get from those two in the middle tonight? QLD don't have the defensive smarts of Smith this time around to slow the NSW possession play down in the middle. if NSW dictate the play the ball in the trenches, this will be a blow out. QLD forwards need to play out of their skin for the time they're on the park - then we can talk about their spine.
 
Hutty1986

Hutty1986

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isaiah said:
I will be here. Favourite time the last 13 series is laughing on here at big egos deflated
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