Thread: State of Origin.

Originally Posted by Landy Smurf

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well what else did people expect?

the writing was on the wall, nsw to win the series no matter what it takes...

loaded the games so qld only gets one home game instead of the usual two

shall we say the refereeing was more than a little dubious when nsw were anywhere near the line and downright disgraceful on 3 occasions that quickly come to mind.

and to have a captain of a side throw punches without provocation and not be given at least 10 minutes in the bin, much less walked for the rest of the game, is an absolute disgrace and showing a great example to all the young people aspiring to fill their shoes, not a good look for the nrl i am afraid. when you have the usually biased commentators such as peter sterling also saying that the refereeing was dubious it is a pretty good indicator that it must have been pretty amiss..

that said the nsw team played well and truly all over the qld side in the first half and deserved the win on the night imho.

no doubt blues supporters have moments they thought the were robbed as well.

hope the qld team fire next two rounds ...

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Bring back the biff.

BWAHAHAHA!

Well done Blues

Nothing wrong with those 2 soft punches, but I reckon Gal will get a week for the swinging arm.

Origin is a different game and always has been. No bias in refereeing from my perspective as Qld were completely outplayed. And they managed to start as underdogs again.

Funny that neither coach nor Cam Smith had any problem with the little blue. Dont remember Meninga being sent off for smearing Mick O'Conners nose all over his face with that waterpipe he wore on his arm

I'm sure it will be a different game next time.

Originally Posted by incisor

well what else did people expect?

the writing was on the wall, nsw to win the series no matter what it takes...

loaded the games so qld only gets one home game instead of the usual two

shall we say the refereeing was more than a little dubious when nsw were anywhere near the line and downright disgraceful on 3 occasions that quickly come to mind.

and to have a captain of a side throw punches without provocation and not be given at least 10 minutes in the bin, much less walked for the rest of the game, is an absolute disgrace and showing a great example to all the young people aspiring to fill their shoes, not a good look for the nrl i am afraid. when you have the usually biased commentators such as peter sterling also saying that the refereeing was dubious it is a pretty good indicator that it must have been pretty amiss..

that said the nsw team played well and truly all over the qld side in the first half and deserved the win on the night imho.

no doubt blues supporters have moments they thought the were robbed as well.

hope the qld team fire next two rounds ...

Good points, well made. Agree on all counts. NSW would want to hope that wasn't their best effort, because that was very far from QLD's.

I dunno how these blokes find the time to train or play a game when there so busy getting sozled and glassing there girlfriends and the other normal goings on

Originally Posted by incisor

well what else did people expect?

the writing was on the wall, nsw to win the series no matter what it takes...

loaded the games so qld only gets one home game instead of the usual two

shall we say the refereeing was more than a little dubious when nsw were anywhere near the line and downright disgraceful on 3 occasions that quickly come to mind.

and to have a captain of a side throw punches without provocation and not be given at least 10 minutes in the bin, much less walked for the rest of the game, is an absolute disgrace and showing a great example to all the young people aspiring to fill their shoes, not a good look for the nrl i am afraid. when you have the usually biased commentators such as peter sterling also saying that the refereeing was dubious it is a pretty good indicator that it must have been pretty amiss..

that said the nsw team played well and truly all over the qld side in the first half and deserved the win on the night imho.

no doubt blues supporters have moments they thought the were robbed as well.

hope the qld team fire next two rounds ...

Can't disagree with any of those points Dave, but, NSW out-played us and deserved the win on the night.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

...NSW out-played us and deserved the win on the night.

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