@mariner4life said in Origin 2022:
@bayimports said in Origin 2022:
@mariner4life said in Origin 2022:
@bayimports said in Origin 2022:
@mariner4life said in Origin 2022:
What will be overlooked is the work to keep out Qld when Hunt made that last break, that was game over but NSW kept turning up in the right spot.
Think from memory it was RCG, who turned up twice, once on the break and then on the far right on the try line, he had more impact than some of the bigger names.
I agree on the ref, given what the players are used to in a normal match, so many things left/ignored by the ref. It went both ways for sure
I think Papa plays game 2, but a shrewd bench change by Billy. For someone with no formal coaching experience he outplayed Freddy in the use of his bench (with some obviously forced on him). I wonder if he would live in NZ ha ha (I would think not)
it's not worse than Innisfail
i know you're joking, but rep coaching is not club coaching
He got some things very right, and didn't panic when it would have been easy to. The focus on pressuring Cleary on every kick definitely paid dividends, as Cleary's main strength is just pinning teams in their end over and over until they break.
lol absolutely joking, but was certainly a clever move. The C.Smith wrestle in the second half was invaluable as well, I thought the ref would blow a few times and he just let it go.
Unless Staggs is injured I dont see how Chrichton makes the bench in game two, was a stupid selection to start with for the bench, especially with Hynes as 18th man. Apart from a good motivator I dont see how Freddy gets a coaching/selection gig anywhere
lol i thought the Wighton/Chrichton move worked out!
Wighton was their best player. And then they lost a centre and had a specialist on the bench!
Wighton was their best player, ironically having a centre on the bench was lucky but was never the right option for a bench player
But yeah, Freddie made the usual strange Freddie moves, only this year he didn't have Turbo and Latrell to bail him out
I expect the rucks to speed up in Game 2 after the focus goes on that (it happens every time). But NSW shouldn't rely on that because faster rucks brings Grant, Munster and Ponga right in to the game. NSW probably give away a few set restarts as well (lets not pretend Qld were the only team getting away with set restart level offences)
Don't get me wrong when both teams had momentum there was a bit of holding from both, we were just talking about the come back late in the second half where Queensland were just holding on, that's all I was referring too.
I do expect changes for NSW in game 2 but don't expect any real change in the closeness of the score line, both teams look evenly matched.
