Origin

[Meth]

Just my selfish opinion.

I want Warriors players to concentrate on NRL. Origin & Tests are a distraction and a source of injury and fatigue.

A Grand Final winners ring lasts forever and outweighs either an Origin Series win or even a World Cup win.

Let's concentrate on a Grand Final.

Same.

I don't mind Warriors playing in the Anzac Test (although I'm not a fan of the Anzac Test) if they're playing well enough, because Test Football is the ultimate for mine. But it always guts me when one of our players is injured in a Test match. That sort of exasperation in me is amplified somewhat when one of our Aussie players is injured in Origin...

 

[Aragorn]

Yeah, my heart stopped a beat when Shuan Johnson got stung in the Anzac Test.... I thought he broke his shoulder for a minute there....

 

[Glen from the Mount]

The good thing is that not too many Warriors players get selected for SOO, the distraction is usually pretty minimal down here.

For Game 1 we are the only team that did not have a player selected. All other 15 teams have at least one player, so a great opportunity for us to continue on our winning way while all other teams have the distraction of SOO.

 

[ozbash]

No, its not mine.... its Retreads.
bloody good though

 

[Bobby DIGital]

Anyone see 40/20? Monty Betham's passion for Queensland made me want to vomit. He even said people who voted for NSW to win lacked integrity. He also trotted out the "I've been supporting QLD since Lowie was coach" line.

Sickening.

Issac Luke said last year "Even Kiwis think Origin is the toughest footy you can play"....That made me furious. I lost a lot of respect for him.

I get really f**kin pissed off when the "Best 34 players in the world" line gets recited. TK said it on the Roast the other day and I wanted to bury my remote in the TV. So Jamie Buhrer's a better player than Benji Marshall then? The sad thing is when someone says it in the media....no one pulls them up about it. Even Tony Archer the ref used that line before reffing his first Origin game.

I used to support NSW when they were stacked full of Raiders in the 90s. But that's only because my fav players were playing for them. Now It's very hard to like NSW due to the players they select. I pretty much hate both teams now.

Kiwis who support QLD piss me off. Most of you jumped on the Wally Lewis bandwagon in the late 80s. Probably because he played so well against the Kiwis. I f**kin hated Lewis, Langer and the rest of those wankers when I was a kid.

 

[Skinner]

No, its not mine.... its Retreads.
bloody good though

Pffffftttttttt

 

[JoeD]

here here. I'm boycotting the game myself. My own private protest.

 

[vvvrulz]

Anyone see 40/20? Monty Betham's passion for Queensland made me want to vomit. He even said people who voted for NSW to win lacked integrity. He also trotted out the "I've been supporting QLD since Lowie was coach" line.

Betham is a clown anyway, I don't consider anything he says to be of value.

Issac Luke said last year "Even Kiwis think Origin is the toughest footy you can play"....That made me furious. I lost a lot of respect for him.

But this I have to agree with Luke here, it is the highest quality league going around. That said however the Kiwi's vs Australia gap is starting to close and become tougher football.

 

[NZ Warrior]

Haters need to stop hatin'!

Bring on SOO!!!!

 

[the rebel]

I go for Queensland because I was born in Brisbane, but growing up in New Zealand (lived here since I was two) I support the Kiwis more passionately and would love the day when test football is held in the same regard as origin. Origin is not what it used to be. We have at least half a dozen players that would make either the NSW or Qld teams. Its no longer the best of the best bullshit that Gould and others crap on about.

 

[Fast Eddie]

In the Kiwis side that played the Anzac Test I'd say

Smith
Nightingale
SKD
Luke
Matulino
Marshall
Mannering
Blair

would have already played Origin or would be playing this year and guys like Johnson, Hoffman, Glenn etc would make it easily in the future.

 

[Blair]

Notice how good the handling was last night? Hardly a mistake to think of, and definitely no dropped balls.

Makes a change from watching the Warriors. Also, I noted how immaculate the big man T. Williams was with ball in hand. Could teach Manu something.

Boring, rigid, structured game though. A few good NSW breaks to liven it up. I think Melbourne had a lot to do with the flat feeling.

 

[vvvrulz]

Notice how good the handling was last night? Hardly a mistake to think of, and definitely no dropped balls.

Makes a change from watching the Warriors. Also, I noted how immaculate the big man T. Williams was with ball in hand. Could teach Manu something.

Boring, rigid, structured game though. A few good NSW breaks to liven it up. I think Melbourne had a lot to do with the flat feeling.

Don't know what you were watching.

There were at least three clear knock ons that I remember along with diving, cheap shots, tackles beyond the horizontal. I think refs are pretty lenient on origin day compared to the NRL, half of that would have been penalized normally.

Williams played for what, 10 minutes? Took a huge dive in the process, achieved little.

Queensland played a structured game while NSW relied on bombs and a bit of luck with Slater having a rare bad day.

Good game albeit grubby and the result was fair in the end despite that dodgy try.

 

[Juju]

Yeah whose was NSW attack coach Bob ToManu or Ivan Cleary?

 

[Fast Eddie]

Notice how good the handling was last night? Hardly a mistake to think of, and definitely no dropped balls.

Makes a change from watching the Warriors. Also, I noted how immaculate the big man T. Williams was with ball in hand. Could teach Manu something.

Boring, rigid, structured game though. A few good NSW breaks to liven it up. I think Melbourne had a lot to do with the flat feeling.

:lol: think you need to rewatch it mate. There were more errors than an average NRL game!

For the 'pinnacle of the game I thought there was zero atmosphere and was a pretty boring game with no more physicality or intensity than a Test match. Although I'm glad Gould got to use 'origin moment' when Cronk made a good tackle on a kick chase....

 

[ozbash]

Told you that all you Blosers were homos .. ..

 

[Lockyer4President!]

Origin has grown into an institution and there's no turning back now. Sorry but it's the pinnacle of league, nothing fiercer, nothing means more (for Qld'ers anyway). It might hurt Kiwi pride but for the average Qld'er and NSWelshman test football comes in a distant third to SOO and then club football.

I think a lot of you Origin knockers don't live over here, it's over-the-top hype of course (when is Nine ever not?) but Origin night is a big 'un and it's time to get busy!

Test football > State of Origin for me but for most people and the vast majority of casual fans I'd agree and say they see Origin as the pinnacle.

It's strange, even people who are ardent club or Origin fans will rubbish test footy but you will get people who know nothing about RL and even some who actively dislike it, getting behind the Maroons at Origin time because it is such a big thing...

 

[Auckland4ever]

Although I'm glad Gould got to use 'origin moment' when Cronk made a good tackle on a kick chase....

If lasts nights game is anything to go by, an 'origin moment' consists of copping a bit of rough stuff in a tackle then imitating a soccer player feigning death.

 

[Habitual Linestepper]

For the 'pinnacle of the game I thought there was zero atmosphere and was a pretty boring game with no more physicality or intensity than a Test match. Although I'm glad Gould got to use 'origin moment' when Cronk made a good tackle on a kick chase....

There isn't much i hate more in league than Gould and his fckn "origin plays" or "origin moments".

Up there with "origin tough", Michael Ennis is supposed to be origin tough and his go to move is talking shit about your family.

I remember Gould was peddling that shit pretty hard during the World Cup final. He's like a walking cliche. Pretty much the John Madden of rugby league.