Thread: State of Origin

Good on yer Queensland, done it again.
Last year I was in Bankstown watching the first game. Thyday went over in the first try and I gave a little YES!. Trouble was I was in a pub FULL of Blues supporters. I was told to be careful if I wanted to not go to hospital!
That's life!. I left and went to my hotel room and watched the Maroons go on to win. (It may have been two years ago when I think about it)

its not so much the maroons won that the blues lost,,
sack both the halves.

Well , after you hear the endless blabber blabber blabber and expert opinions prior to the game , you expect something pretty good to happen.

Then after the game the endless blabber blabber blabber and expert opinions come forward again making you wonder if you watched the same game as them.

It's now all about the experts playing with their knobs on their smart tv , giving their opinions , instead of the game , which is given less air time than the commentators and experts.

Don't they let Wally Lewis have a microphone during the game so we get a more balanced commentary?
Gotta love Gus! When the Cockies were in front he was extolling their virtues but as soon as they got behind he was hanging the brown stuff on them. How fickle & what a loser. A shame really as he does know a lot about the game.
Steve

Maybe I'm jaded, but I was a bit disappointed. Obviously, a huge degree of skill and fitness involved and it's wrong to be an armchair critic, I know. Just thought Queensland dominated for much of the match and seemed to be playing smarter, particularly Cam Smith, while NSW seemed a bit aimless and relied on individual brilliance rather than strategy. Could be wrong of course, what do you think?


Actually, watching it, I was thinking that as the next game is to be in Melbourne the obvious next step would be to expand State of Origin to include Victoria and have either three or six games plus a final for the two leading teams. What do you think?

State of Origin may have run its course. The passion was always fed by frustrated Qlders., sick of seeing their side defeated by fellow Qlders., playing in Sydney. I would like to see the focus return to international matches, who can forget the test matches between England, France , NZ, Wales ,Aus.. Add a Pacific Island team to the mix, play a test series at the end of a season , like the old days. Origin has taken top billing for some time now, I think it is time for International games to be the major focus. Yes, it will take time to bring some sides up to the standard required, but it would be better for Rugby League in the long run. Bob

Rugby has a much better format, better foresight for the future, better organised, and more teams.

Should I mention Super League, now that was an absolute shambles and all because they wanted to keep it all in house in the Sydney comp, basically QLD had no other option after super league fell through.

To expand the way Rugby Union has, they will need to adopt a similar plan, the thing is, all the countries that played League all those years ago, are now focusing more on Rugby Union and to be honest most of their League teams were full of Ex Rugby players anyway.

I think the behavour of the players is hurting the game the most, people are sick and tired of hearing about them and more importantly, how they get away with it, over and over and nothing done about, what so special about sportsman and women.

Baz.

what a load of bollocks