JT: "They (Qld) had a lot go against them in Game 2..."
Lol here it goes.
As a player, I was always happy to see JT succeed (apart from at Origin level, in which case f**k off with the rest of them you whingeing toad) and found him generally more likeable than a lot of other prominent players of his era. Saying that, he can't bring himself to give credit to NSW for anything, even when it's deserved. The best he can do is claim "They were probably the better team tonight" after NSW won the 2019 decider- when there was no probably about it.
Wally Lewis was arguably the #1 player in some Qld teams that (for a couple of reasons) I put above the 2006-2013 sides. In Qld, he is still "The King". No other personality in Qld has that lofty title. Arguably their #1 player of all time. Yet after Game 1 last year, having just watched his beloved state annihilated on home turf, he had the grace to concur that as far as he was concerned, it was the best performance he had ever seen from a NSW team since 1980. A guy who played against the likes of Kenny, Sterling, Mortimer, Pearce, Daley, Stick etc. Huge praise. But JT could never bring himself to say something like this.