2023 Origin II - Wed 21 Jun - QLD 32-6 NSW @ Suncorp

[Babyface O'reilly]

From NRL.com.

NSW:
had more possession
made more runs
made more metres
made more post tackle metres
made more tackle breaks
made less errors
missed less tackles
conceded less penalties

still got thrashed...

Most of that was Teddy getting his stats up

 

[Sphagnum]

In all honesty it'll sell more tickets than a swans vs gws in Adelaide

*Sydney

 

[Babyface O'reilly]

Reynolds would have done better. discuss

For ten minutes before he gets injured

 

[Woody90]

Why do we keep talking about which media personality is going to coach the Blues next? Get an actual coach to coach them FFS.

 

[84 Baby]

NSW Game 3
1.Suaali
2. Cotric
3. Gutherson
4. Cook
5. Graham
6. Fittler
7. Pearce
8. Campbell-Gillard
9. Turbo
10. Jurbo
11. Matterson
12. Bird
13. Gallen

 

[soc123_au]

Moving forward

Edwards
JAC (Hanging by a thread)
Trell
Serial Killer
To'o
Moses/Luai/Hynes (picked on form in the lead up)
Cleary
Hass
Api
RCG
Murray
Martin
Yeo

Burton/Gutho
Jake T/Paulo
Leniu
Young

Coach Toovey/Hasler/A Pot Plant/Not Freddy

 

[Marshall_magic]

Individually I thought most of the Blues players did ok. The stats also back that up, sadly it aint an individual game.
Freddy just didn't make it work with whatever it was they were trying to do.

Moses and Luai both had some nice moments, but no one was on the same page, shit kick chase, no support, it was bizzare.

Playing Yeo as the point of attack needs to stop now. He keeps his spot, but go sparingly on the amount of ball he gets, his defense is first rate and hit ups are fine, but let the halves be halves.

Watching the Blues was like watching the Tigers. Soft defending our line, clueless when on the attack. Otherwise they more than held their own. Keep in mind we are looking at back to back wooden spoons, and you’ll see it’s not a winning strategy.

 

[Bazal]

No there's not. Is that you Freddie for your game 3 team?

Yes yes we get it TiGeR fAn HaTe MoSeS but we've tried the running retreads like Kung Fu Cody and Eshay Luai and lost so who's your pick?

I'd love if Moses or the rest of our blokes ever got an Origin again so they can play for us instead anyway

 

[Generalzod]

Yes yes we get it TiGeR fAn HaTe MoSeS but we've tried the running retreads like Kung Fu Cody and Eshay Luai and lost so who's your pick?

I'd love if Moses or the rest of our blokes ever got an Origin again so they can play for us instead anyway

Seriously all he did last night was just kick the ball up in the air..

 

[johns_reds]

Surely this is now setup for John’s brothers to come back and co-coach! Imagine the media hype they’re employers would love it

the drama of the break up, the make up and then the winning of a series, would be greater story then “remember the titans”

 

[Generalzod]

Surely this is now setup for John’s brothers to come back and co-coach! Imagine the media hype they’re employers would love it

f**k them..Get Toovey to coach the team

 

[Generalzod]

Seriously how’s is channel 9 going to promote the next match, I won’t be watching it.

 

[Sphagnum]

Seriously how’s is channel 9 going to promote the next match, I won’t be watching it.

Only Queenslanders will because they don’t understand origin

 

[League guru]

Players never to be selected for Australia again:

Addo-Carr
Tedesco
Yeo
Cook
Trbovic

Done and done.

Addo-Carr is a joke. Beating his chest as he walks off the field after getting ten minutes. He is a dead set cat. Fittler only brought him back in to avoid the flak from last year.

 

[Ron's_Mate]

The big difference was that Qld had organisation and discipline. The 6 and 7 were pulling the strings and the rest of the team just did their jobs. NSW had no one calling the shots and like in recent games played like they had just met each other before the game (which is more or less the case). Mostly that is down to the coaching and selections. Fingers crossed this is Fittler's last series. Tedesco is also done at this level.

 

[Chimp]

NSW just woeful again. Fitler well and truly out of his depth.
Strange selections, cowardly selections, no obvious style, terrible (or zero) in-game reactions, terrible use of rotations…..
They played like the Sharks do against good teams - still tried to sling it wide and go around them, with zero craft in the middle of the pitch….
Some players in that NSW team are very good NRL players (in very good NRL teams with great structures), but don’t translate to origin. Yeo is the greatest example - it just doesn’t work in Origin, and he’s far too nice. Haas is awesome, but he’s not an enforcer, he doesn’t have them scared for their safety - Haas needs to be supported by a couple of meat head middles who have QLD worried - instead he’s got the lovely fella Yeo who’d not say boo to a goose, big Stefano who’s just meh, and plodder Paulo.
The big thing is efforts off the ball - Chrichton break - entire QLD team got back onside to defend, NSW didnt have anywhere near the same attackers. The Hammer lucky bounce try - Haas is the only Blue who’s chased back, all the others stopped chasing back once the break was made (could be seen on the replay players just trotting back).
Filters first season, he made a big thing about picking ‘on form’, but he’s fallen for the same trick that Daley fell for, falling in love with certain players, far too much focus on both ‘club connections’ and ‘incumbency’, rather than just picking the players who can get the job done, in the style you want to play.
Just shit, really really shit, all round.

 

[bazza]

NSW Game 3
1.Suaali
2. Cotric
3. Gutherson
4. Cook
5. Graham
6. Fittler
7. Pearce
8. Campbell-Gillard
9. Turbo
10. Jurbo
11. Matterson
12. Bird
13. Gallen

It needs more surprise selections of someone who has only played 10 nrl games for a bottom 4 team

 

[Sans Souci Saint]

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

It needs more surprise selections of someone who has only played 10 nrl games for a bottom 4 team

Jahream Bula.

Bennet to coach NSW.

Returns to the contest as a rugby league Darth Vader.

 

[bazza]

Bula

should be good to sit on the bench for 75 minutes and come on when the game is over