At the game. Decent crowd and stadium is better than I expected.
I do like how the Blues chance their arm.
Tedesco’s involvement in the attack has been huge.
Weight of possession
@Kiap said in Origin 2022:
At the game. Decent crowd and stadium is better than I expected.
I watched ManU and Leeds there and there were 50K+ there and I thought the stadium was pretty awesome.
One-on-one strip with 3 Blues players in the tackle…
Two of them peeled away eventually but not before the other one had grabbed it and the Qld ball carrier was on his knees.
That’s not how they have been calling them this season.
Qld defence is shot to shit
And they score again
Ponga is really shit by the way
Field position everything tonight
Ponga with some matador defence there.
Qld have coughed up too much ball.
Blues have been deadly when they’ve played with width, making huge metres on the edges.
@mariner4life Ponga was instrumental in that first Qld try, getting into the line, but other than that has been MIA.
He simply doesn’t have the game for Origin when it’s an arm wrestle. He can’t hit the ball up, unlike Tedesco.
@mariner4life said in Origin 2022:
This is a stitch up
Game 3 decider guaranteed
Greatest game ever needs a thrilling conclusion.
well, that was a step up on game one, until the sin bin. Game was changed right there. The scramble defence in the following 10 minutes sucked out all energy from Qld and the rout ensued.
Tupou showed how valuable he could be last night though and having Burton really helped spread the kicking around, still shame about the sin bin
One Qld fan wins my support lol
@NTA said in Origin 2022:
@mariner4life said in Origin 2022:
This is a stitch up
Game 3 decider guaranteed
Greatest game ever needs a thrilling conclusion.
When I got up this morning I checked Tribe app for the score, not the result as obviously that was a foregone conclusion, but I was surprised by the score.
7 days later
QUEENSLAND TEAM LIST
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Kalyn Ponga - Newcastle Knights
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Selwyn Cobbo - Brisbane Broncos
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Valentine Holmes - North Queensland Cowboys
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Dane Gagai - Newcastle Knights
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Murray Taulagi - North Queensland Cowboys
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Cameron Munster - Melbourne Storm
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Daly Cherry-Evans - Manly Sea Eagles
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Lindsay Collins - Sydney Roosters
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Ben Hunt - St George Illawarra Dragons
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Josh Papalii - Canberra Raiders
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Kurt Capewell - Brisbane Broncos
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Jeremiah Nanai - North Queensland Cowboys
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Tino Fa’asuamaleaui - Gold Coast Titans
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Harry Grant - Melbourne Storm
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Jai Arrow - South Sydney Rabbitohs
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Patrick Carrigan - Brisbane Broncos
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Tom Gilbert - North Queensland Cowboys
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Thomas Flegler - Brisbane Broncos
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Tom Dearden - North Queensland Cowboys
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Beau Fermor - Gold Coast Titans
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Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow - North Queensland Cowboys
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Sam Walker - Sydney Roosters
NSW SQUAD
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James Tedesco (c) (Sydney Roosters)
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Brian To’o (Penrith Panthers)
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Matt Burton (Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs)
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Stephen Crichton (Penrith Panthers)
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Daniel Tupou (Sydney Roosters)
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Jarome Luai (Penrith Panthers)
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Nathan Cleary (Penrith Panthers)
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Jordan McLean (North Queensland Cowboys)
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Apisai Koroisau (Penrith Panthers)
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Jake Trbojevic (Manly Warringah Sea Eagles)
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Cameron Murray (South Sydney Rabbitohs)
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Liam Martin (Penrith Panthers)
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Isaah Yeo (Penrith Panthers)
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Damien Cook (South Sydney Rabbitohs)
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Angus Crichton (Sydney Roosters)
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Junior Paulo (Parramatta Eels)
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Siosifa Talakai (Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks)
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Jack Wighton (Canberra Raiders)
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Nicho Hynes (Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks)
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Clint Gutherson (Parramatta Eels)
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Jacob Saifiti (Newcastle Knights)
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Reece Robson (North Queensland Cowboys)
Gagai and Papalii on last chance saloon here i reckon. Both have been very average this series.
Nanai has struggled to make any impact on the field (yes excuse in G1) and needs to fill some very big tackling boots. Qld will give away less 6-agains though.
Bit of defense this game wouldn't go amiss. Yes even you Kalyn
Kaufusi and Haas forced changes to both sides, but the success of the cowboys has seen players filled from their team in either side. Probably lucky the bye comes for them this week from an NRL perspective.
Ardie knows what's up
The biggest game of the week is still, fuck probably 6 hours away by the time we get through all the pregame bullshit.
No way Qld overcomes the loss of Munster, leaving DCE to win us the game. Someone in the backs would have to play a fucking blinder, along with a couple of forwards.
Munster and Cotter were Qld's best players in G1, and they are gone.
Meanwhile NSW are packed with Panthers, and those fluffybunnies never ever get hurt. So their most important players are all there. Cleary and Burton will kick Qld to death, they'll win the territory battle by fuckloads, and at one point score a quick run of tries to win by about 16.
Fuck you cleary you suspiciously pimply and wide jawed fuck.
Oh, and Jerome Luia will do fuck all for most of the game, but still celebrate hardest and mouth off the absolute most because he is a fuckhead.
@mariner4life Gold medal to you in the Claiming the Underdog Status
@Higgins said in Origin 2022:
@mariner4life Gold medal to you in the Claiming the Underdog Status
you just don't "get" origin
we are always the underdog. always
sure, our team may at one point have had peak Slater, Inglis, Thurston, Lockyer, Smith, Petro, Price et al
but we were fucking underdogs mate. Qld spirit won that.
deadset
@mariner4life and those Qld underdogs back in the day with the King, Mal and Gene Miles…
@ACT-Crusader said in Origin 2022:
@mariner4life and those Qld underdogs back in the day with the King, Mal and Gene Miles…
Origin. Spirit
fluffybunny
@mariner4life said in Origin 2022:
@ACT-Crusader said in Origin 2022:
@mariner4life and those Qld underdogs back in the day with the King, Mal and Gene Miles…
Origin. Spirit
fluffybunny
nah you just always on origin spirits .. bundy and brown tap water XXXX
I think this will be a brutal encounter, on paper you would think the Blues get up, but that never translates in Origin. Blues to squash some cane toads but not by as much as we think.
I would be interested to have a rugby union ref watch the game and find how many cards they could dish out applying some unions laws, I suspect it would finish as a game of sevens at best
Strap in sports fans
This is it. The decider. The greatest show on turf. The crucible. At the home of origin. You will not see better than this.
This is what it means to be a Queenslander etc
Also crypto and share trading app ads are worse than fucking sportsbet
Even with Jack Bauer
Watching the decider tonight after Ardie's comments. Haven't watched or followed league in yonks but used to be an avid NSW fan as I was obsessed with the Panthers back in the day. Are there any genuine GOATs playing? You know like the Filters, Malinga's, Johns etc of the good old days. Or nobody that stands out like those guys did?
@Crazy-Horse said in Origin 2022:
Swinging arm to the head and just on report. So different.
@Crazy-Horse said in Origin 2022:
Swinging arm to the head and just on report. So different.
That's a deadset red in union. And if not the fans would be calling for the refs head. I like the report system.