I can't believe there are articles out there claiming we were robbed. f**k off. The better team won. Too many useless, ineffective forwards on the park for us and NSW exploited that in the second half.
The difference was Maloney and his organisation of the NSW team.
Hunt would've been the bloke to do this for QLD, but he sat out all but the captains run re training sessions. Without Smith, Thurston, & particularly Cronk who is the master, these were massive shoes for QLD to fill. Not having the player who would take it on in his first start in the role not able to train with the team was a big disadvantage. QLD did alright but lacked direction for the most part. Inglis did some good inspirational things individually, but a bloke is not going to do much of the managing of troops from left centre.
This was compounded by having the other bloke who would be barking instructions and organising the forwards in Slater not training and being ruled out as well. Munster isn't the player who does this sort of shit (and doesn't have to at club) and plays his own running game. Milf is exactly the same. In hindsight, maybe Scott's experience would've been helpful but I guess Walters didn't realise his two chief organisers would be under injury clouds, particularly Hunt.
If they have a good week (albeit a short one) with Hunt calling the shots at training, it may be a better one for QLD in game 2
