The future can wait: Blues must win Origin III
It would be embarrassing if the Blues failed to win a game in this series, especially when two of the games were played in Sydney.
Phil Gould is a League Columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald
It would be embarrassing if the Blues failed to win a game in this series, especially when two of the games were played in Sydney.
How is it that in modern day football we see so games change like this and no lead is ever big enough to say victory is assured?
NSW had Queensland beaten on three or four occasions last night. They just couldn't reflect that on the scoreboard.
I remain totally convinced that this current Queensland team is past its best and nowhere near as formidable as we've witnessed in previous seasons.
Wade Graham should be playing State of Origin football for NSW on Wednesday night. The system has failed him and it has failed our game. His suspension is totally unfair.
The Maroons will be a 50 per cent better team on their home soil than they were in game one.
The whole NSW squad needs a giant shift in attitude and a major rethink on the way they play football if they hope to beat Queensland in game two of this year's State of Origin series.
I suspect we'll know a lot more about each team's 2016 prospects after this match - and it is one you'll not want to miss.
Since the turn of the century, and in this salary cap scrutinised era, no team has been able to win a premiership without the majority of its grand final team having made their NRL debut with that particular club.
NSW had Queensland but just didn't quite know how to produce the winning score.
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