NSW given every advantage fluff their opportunities.

[RecordBreakingMaroons.]

Some Queensland players had Grade 2 symptoms BEFORE they went onto the field.

Luckily, NSW is such a pushover to beat that even a delerious team can beat them.

 

[RecordBreakingMaroons.]

QLD!

 

[RecordBreakingMaroons.]

NSW now face the admittedly rare posibility of a whitewash. The NSW narrative will now completely shift to: "Well we know that we'll be expected to have a homeground advantage. We won't be complacent. We know we have to go out and make a win happen through effort. We won't be taking our eye off the ball because the series has been decided. We will be free to play without further pressure for this one game. It can be about that one game. Without any other burden."

They'll try and massage the narrative like they have a clean sheet. Sorry guys your sheets will bear the shitstains of your recent defeats to QLD.

 

[Desert Qlder]

What will Klein's penalty count be in game 3?

 

[RecordBreakingMaroons.]

What will Klein's penalty count be in game 3?

Klein? Irrelevant. As always.

 

[RecordBreakingMaroons.]

The two photos below show one second after Fifita passes and two seconds.

Using Cameron Munster's head in the pictures below to place where Crighton is on the field. Using the stationary players to plot the moving ones, one can see that Fifita passes flat to Hamiso. Because Fifita is running towards Crighton as he passes flat to Hamiso who is in line, the ball floats a little forward. No sooner has the ball left Fifita's hand than Crighton tackles him pushing him back in the process. In the first top photo the ball has already left Fifita's hands. It is the white just showing at his shoulder. You can see between the top and the bottom photos, Hamiso has not yet begun to run. Quite the opposite in fact. Between the two photos Hamiso basically turns toward the ball and props. He is standing still waiting to catch the ball. That is not a forward pass.

Again, look at Cameron Munster's head using that to place where Crighton was before and after he drove Fifita back in the tackle. The impact on Fifita was when his full concentration was on the offload not on pushing against Crighton. Thus Crighton pushed Fifita backward in an instant making the float of the ball look like it was thrown forward but these photos show that Fifita's pass was fine. Also Hamiso was onside.

 

[RecordBreakingMaroons.]

Hamiso's pass at full speed wasn't forward either.

 

[RecordBreakingMaroons.]

These three photos show between the first and second second after Fifita passes to Hamiso. The ball is passed flat.

 

[mongoose]

Fafita's pass was almost intentionally forward and I'm a neutral with Origin.

 

[Desert Qlder]

31-17 penalties to NSW across the four Origin games so far in 2023.

All refs, touch judges and bunker officials based in Sydney for the 'National' Rugby League.

 

[gUt]

Might just take the W on this one RBM

 

[RecordBreakingMaroons.]

Might just take the W on this one RBM

I gotta poke the bear.

 

[RecordBreakingMaroons.]

I view the effectiveness of Jerome Luai's Origin invective as retrospectively self-corrective. Luai set himself a mission of taking to the QLDers. He never missed any oportunity to snear, smirk and guffaw while pantomiming the traditional derisable outlaw tough guy. Meanwhile QLD are running scoring plays around the NSW guys, just as if they weren't there.

So like all powder puff tough guys that can't deal with rough guys, Luai gets whiney to the referee. Go have a sook tough guy. Oh I forgot. You did that already. How did that work out?