2024 State of Origin Series (Mens Edition)

[Happy MEel]

Angus Crichton is still off contract get him to the club ffs

Both he and Lomax would transform our side. If we could offload Lane and/or Matto, as well as Junior, I reckon we’d have the cash. f**k we need a coach announced yesterday.

 

[lucablight]

Angus Crichton is still off contract get him to the club ffs

He could be a huge risk. Bro is getting old.

 

[Happy MEel]

He could be a huge risk. Bro is getting old.

Huh? He’s 28 years old

 

[Soto]

Angus Crichton is still off contract get him to the club ffs

I've been advocating for Angus for ages...he's a gun...I'd turf 3 players to get him...he wants to hurt and win...that's the type of player we need to sign...change the mentality of the side.

 

[Soto]

Mitch MOM. Great performance. Well done.
ps. I’m starting to think Alana might be even hotter than Danika

No way

 

[Parra Pride]

Hey so I think Lomax may actually just be a really f**king good wing.

 

[EelEtric]

Hey so I think Lomax may actually just be a really f**king good wing.

I think he was found out in defence a few times later in the game though.
Luckily we have a good defensive coach who can always fix that, like he has for our edge defenders in the past.

 

[Parra Pride]

BTW see what happens when you have some dominant second rowers and centres...

Martin and Angus were massive tonight

Instead this week we have Lane and Carty....

Hey man, just letting you know that you are not invited to the Carty party.

 

[JokerEel]

Hey man, just letting you know that you are not invited to the Carty party.

I do like Carty in the First 10 minutes with his intensity but it falls off a cliff after that.

Plus we need some bash Brothers in the second row now plodders ala Lane...

 

[Eelementary]

This is what you’d get week in week out with better coaching and less reserve graders around him.

He changed my mind on him - I didn't think he could dominate a game like that.

 

[the phantom menace]

I've been advocating for Angus for ages...he's a gun...I'd turf 3 players to get him...he wants to hurt and win...that's the type of player we need to sign...change the mentality of the side.

Yep, A. Crichton was a beast on the edge tonight.

 

[lucablight]

Huh? He’s 28 years old

He’ll be 29 next season. Is it worth signing a forward on big money for one season after which they *might* fall off a cliff? He may not but it’s still a risk. Crichton isn’t that much younger than Lane. Let’s not forget Lane was killing it at a similar age even moreso than Crichton before he fell off hard.

 

[eels_fan]

Moses 4 try assists (I personally think he should be credited with 5, but anyway) is the equal most try assists in a single origin game in history - tied with Fittler from 2000.

No single player has had 4 try assists in a SERIES in 6 years and Moses just did it in one game.

He now has more try assists in origin than Cleary from 10 less games

 

[King-Gutho94]

Completely agree. His first fifteen minutes was on another level from a Canetoad’s POV. And then he gave us absolutely everything in the second half to prevent a complete blow out.

Hard to argue his performance was worse then 34 players.

He is a rubbish ref that loses control of games very quickly.

It's no coincidence last year's GF was one of the best refereed games in a long time because Klein and Sutton weren't involved for the first time in 7-8 years.

First 30 mins the penalties and set restarts was 6-0 to NSW.

After the 30 min mark when the game had blown out the count turned around 11-3 QLDs way in the last 50 Mins.

It's almost like Ashley was told give NSW the early running and at halftime looking at the score someone from the NRL has gone mate you better start penalising NSW we can't have this as 40-50 point blow-out.

 

[Gary Gutful]

First time he's been allowed to not just chase the collision since 2017 and it showed.

He chased the collision all night. Defence was exceptional. Forced Dearden to spill his lollies a couple of times.

 

[King-Gutho94]

It boggles my mind sometimes with the sin bins and rules.

The NRL want to promote Origin as tribalism and the hatred with things exploding.

The moment there was a small melee we send blokes to the bin for a head rub and a bit of push and shove.

Would anyone here be whinging if Martin and Carrigan stayed on the field last night.

NRL wonder why Origin has lost its lustre from 10-15 years ago.

 

[Soto]

It boggles my mind sometimes with the sin bins and rules.

The NRL want to promote Origin as tribalism and the hatred with things exploding.

The moment there was a small melee we send blokes to the bin for a head rub and a bit of push and shove.

Would anyone here be whinging if Martin and Carrigan stayed on the field last night.

NRL wonder why Origin has lost its lustre from 10-15 years ago.

Adam Gee needs to be the ref for the 3rd game...it's gonna be a circus If Klown is the ref

 

[Eelementary]

And how good is Brian To'o?

There was one set last night where he took 3 runs.

Absolute machine.

 

[Eelementary]

Angus Crichton is still off contract get him to the club ffs

Yes, please.

 

[Eelementary]

He’ll be 29 next season. Is it worth signing a forward on big money for one season after which they *might* fall off a cliff? He may not but it’s still a risk. Crichton isn’t that much younger than Lane. Let’s not forget Lane was killing it at a similar age even moreso than Crichton before he fell off hard.

To be fair, Lane has had one very, very good season, and then been average, at best, for the rest of his time with us.

Angus Crichton has routinely been a Blues-calibre player.

I would take Crichton, over Lane, any day.