The Blues just had too much strike in the end. I thought the ANZ surface really levelled the game out in the first half and gave Queensland a fighting chance. They were perfect with the football in the first half, but once they started making errors (starting with that kick from Hunt) it got pretty ugly. NSW just had too many game-breakers in Tedesco, Cook, Addo-Carr etc. and the injection of Murray was a master stroke from Freddy. Bringing him and Graham on was just another ace up the sleeve for the Blues and the Maroons really started to falter.
Courageous effort from the Maroons to make a game of it at the death, albeit the Blues looked to have let them off the hook at various stages.
A strange series, on paper NSW had far the better side, yet it went down to the dying seconds. Either way, all 34 players delivered a wonderful advertisement for the game and some players added some wonderful moments to their highlights reel. I just never in my life expected Ethan Lowe would be one of them! What a crazy last couple of minutes.
Congrats Blues fans.