It's time for Laurie Daley to go and Brad Fittler and Andrew Johns to coach NSW
Following NSW's devastating Origin series loss — again — it's time for the NSWRL to make some big calls. Starting with the coach.
Chief Sports Writer, The Sydney Morning Herald
Following NSW's devastating Origin series loss — again — it's time for the NSWRL to make some big calls. Starting with the coach.
The notion of a new era of NSW dominance, that emerging generation of Blues stars who would now be at the vanguard of Origin domination for years and years to come, fell firmly on its face at Suncorp Stadium on Wednesday night.
Five years ago, Cordner lifted the Origin shield as captain of the NSW under-20s side. He's primed to do it again, this time in game three at Suncorp Stadium on Wednesday night.
If rugby league players want more of the game, they need to promote it,.
Nobody has more to gain out of a Blues win in the Origin decider than Mitchell Pearce ... or more to lose.
Ever since Andrew Fifita criticised The Star after the Blues' game-two loss to Queensland, the NSWRL has been edgy about upsetting their major sponsor.
The RLPA chief executive is relatively unknown. But the NRL is kidding itself if it doesn't take him seriously in an increasingly ugly dispute over pay and conditions
The Blues skipper is in doubt for the decider with a calf injury – and in the rooms after the Origin II defeat he knew it
NSW were less than four minutes away from claiming the State of Origin series before Dane Gagai and Maroons champion Johnathan Thurston stepped up .
After last year's series defeat, some on the NSWRL wanted the coach sacked. He changed his ways and now has the Blues primed for an Origin series win.
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