State of Origin 2025

[Blair]

The front row selections and the Luai over Burton on form are issues, with the apparent lack of game plans and missing the start in two games is telling… if Daley keeps his job it’s a joke tbh.

Either way, sports-wise, Origin helps us get through winter. Wimbledon will soon be done, the Tour de France is upon us, the Lions tour, an All Black test or two, and it'll soon be spring and NRL finals time!

Cool.

 

[Beavers Headgear]

The front row selections and the Luai over Burton on form are issues, with the apparent lack of game plans and missing the start in two games is telling… if Daley keeps his job it’s a joke tbh

Luai I think was the correct call, he won them they series last year, and got similar treatment after Moses went down that the line of Edwards, Cleary and To’o got, when you could argue guys like Tedesco, Katoa and Kiraz have outplayed them comfortably this year

Personally I keep Daley there, as I said earlier, very fine line, if Lomax kicked his goals in game 2 it would have been one of the great wins after the Ashley Klein special on the first 45mins. I think the game plans were there, but the halves didn’t deliver them

 

[JJ]

Luai I think was the correct call, he won them they series last year, and got similar treatment after Moses went down that the line of Edwards, Cleary and To’o got, when you could argue guys like Tedesco, Katoa and Kiraz have outplayed them comfortably this year

Personally I keep Daley there, as I said earlier, very fine line, if Lomax kicked his goals in game 2 it would have been one of the great wins after the Ashley Klein special on the first 45mins. I think the game plans were there, but the halves didn’t deliver them

Good points…. At this point Cleary and To’o are automatics…. The degree to which Cleary was impacted by his injury is an issue, but they cleared him. Re Luai, yep but Burton has been much better this year and has big game experience…. Paas aside the props were weird, and a hooker that offers more is essential imo…