What NSW should be frightened of.

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This:

Bill Slater and QLD will learn from this series and be better than this year.

 

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NSW fielded a team who on consideration of player ability would stand scrutiny with the best Rugby League players of all time. Full Stop. QLD made them look like monkeys.

QLD can improve big time on what they did this year.

There is so much improvement possible in QLD performance-wise. They didn't look like they struggled to achieve what they achieved on Wednesday night. QLD can play much better than that even.

QLD made some of the best to ever pull on a Rugby League jersey look like they didn't know what they were doing. Plus QLD have much more improvement untapped. You guys should consider: This game was as important to QLD, going forward, on the long term view as Game 3 2006. Game 3 2025 was a game which convinces a footy team that they can take hold of football at this level. The coach also.

If you don't think that Slater will benefit from analysing this series and getting better as an Origin coach; You're kidding yourself. There will be so many realisations which have never before come to him about how to coach at Origin level that Bill will take away from this series. It should frighten you. I mean terrify you.

More than the players, he will benefit from this series. Around selection critieria. Around player rotation. Around strategy. The best of Bill Slater as an Origin coach is yet to be seen.

Mark my words. NSW have seen nothing yet.

 

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Slater as a coach is the guy who could make clean-sweeps the norm for the team he coaches. He is only finding his feet as a coach. That last game will benefit him so much.

 

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Slater is the coach who will not only learn from what he and his own team got right and wrong. He will benefit from what NSW did right and wrong. NSW have no idea how much better QLD will be from this point forward for the lessons learnt from this series.

QLD have so much to take from Game 1. So much to take from Game 2. The most to take from Game 3.

NSW have no idea what they taught QLD this year. All of it will come back to bite them.

 

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QLD in Game 3 kicked the arse of some of the best players to ever pull on a Rugby league jersey, stole their lollies and sent them home crying.

You had better believe that QLD now want to do that every game.

 

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That old adage:

A team of champions can't beat a champion team.

QLD are forging a means of fielding the chamion team to defeat whichever champions NSW throw at them. Name any name. Name any collection of names. QLD are forging a way to defeat any team that NSW can throw at them.

 

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It all depends upon the vision of Bill Slater and his eyesight just got much better.

 

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When Cameron Smith, Greg Inglis and Cooper Cronk were playing alongside Bill Slater they all said that no-one reads the game like Bill Slater, no-one understands the game like Bill Slater, no-one understands what needs to be done like Bill Slater.

He is retired from playing. He doesn't now lose his edge as he gets older. He gets better as a coach for having the experience. He could be QLD's coach when he is 70.

NSW should be terrified.

 

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Also, as QLD keep getting better and better and better; They get to bring into the assistant coaching level players like Cameron Munster, Hamiso, Harry Grant, Tom Dearden when they retire to pass on their accumulated understanding of Origin level. Alongside future immortals like Cameron Smith and Jonathan Thurston etc.

The inspiration that provides up and coming aspiring QLD rugby league players is inestimable. The effect of that is incalculable. The prospect for NSW should be unthinkable.

 

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QLD do not have to concern themselves with whatever NSW are doing. They can focus on themselves and forge teams with inestimable capability.

 

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What QLD should focus on now is building up the level of Q Cup and lower grade QLD players. Not letting juniors go play for NSW teams which benefit NSW according to the Origin selection criteria. Make certain they are playing for QLD teams past the cut-off point for Origin selection according to the criteria. No more losing guns to NSW(ie Keary etc).

 

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The understanding should ever be:

The pinnacle of Rugby League is State Of Origin. The pinnacle of State Of Origin is pulling on the QLD jersey.

 

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The bonus this series was that we blooded more players who all held their own - Toia, Loiero, Mann & Shibasaki. Hopefully Fermor will get another shot as well.

 

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I hope the entire QLD teams of Games 1,2 and 3 were sent home with tapes of Game 1. Just so we never forget how poorly we played in that game.

Learning from one's mistakes is just as important as learning from one's victories.

Go the Maroons 2026.

 

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Early in Game 3 the NSW fan Channel 9 commentators made a big thing of mentioning all the players who had participated in Penrith's run of Grand Final victories. This was before any points had been scored of course.

That fact alone underlines why Origin is THE Test of Rugby League players/teams.

The NSW team was packed with players from this current era of Penrith GF wins. Yet this NSW team which looked so unbeatable on paper was made to look like amateurs, poor amateurs by the QLD team. The QLD team which included players from the Cowboys, St George, Titans. Teams which will not make the 8 this year. Throw in a rookie who has struggled to rack up 50 games in his entire NRL career and Toia who has barely any First Grade experience.

It's a wonder Paul Gallen never called this the worst team in Origin history.

Made NSW look like monkeys.

 

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What QLD should focus on now is building up the level of Q Cup and lower grade QLD players. Not letting juniors go play for NSW teams which benefit NSW according to the Origin selection criteria. Make certain they are playing for QLD teams past the cut-off point for Origin selection according to the criteria. No more losing guns to NSW(ie Keary etc).

Would like to see a combine for QLD eligible QCUP players who aspire to play NRL occur.

 

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Or a sponsored Budding Up and Comers Future Fund to pay elite youngsters to play for QLD teams before the cut off age. So that NSW get zero of our best playing at their clubs down South. Then subsequently claiming them.

 

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