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Ended up being a good fightback. QLDs best in first half:
  • Hammer
  • No one else really stands out.
 
So lets say for that Pongas hit in game 1 is the new standard of 'red card's. Why wasn't the hit on ponga a red? and why wasn't Radley at list binned other than of course they are both in Blue shirts and Ponga in Maroon
 
Cobbo has really found new lease on life here n its showing in origin

lol you no nsw is f..... when gus has a spray at them
 
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The fact Sam Walker got MOTM just shows how biased the judges are toward anyone in the spine.
 
I thought

3. Cobbo
2. Grant
1. Ponga

Hammer and Munster in particular were also good. Being off for 15 min hurt Munster's ability to get a point.
 
Cobbo and Ponga were standouts.

Being from Sydney. Last night proves for me Cleary isnt in the same league as Johns. He is a dud at Origin level. Call me crazy, id give Katoa a bench spot. If there is no creativity id give him a shot. Get get shot of Moses and Staggs. And the changes to the forwards took us backwards.
 
Liverbird with Phins up said:
Cobbo and Ponga were standouts.

Being from Sydney. Last night proves for me Cleary isnt in the same league as Johns. He is a dud at Origin level. Call me crazy, id give Katoa a bench spot. If there is no creativity id give him a shot. Get get shot of Moses and Staggs. And the changes to the forwards took us backwards.
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Staggs and the Newcastle second rower had shockers.
 
Liverbird with Phins up said:
Last night proves for me Cleary isnt in the same league as Johns. He is a dud at Origin level. Call me crazy, id give Katoa a bench spot. If there is no creativity id give him a shot.
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I have a theory based on someone else's theory around halves in origin and developing them.

A better league brain than myself once postulated that the last great era of the best of the best halves was early 90's to the start of the 2000's. Think John's, Daley, langer, Stuart, and even Lyons. All of those guys to differing degrees played in the unlimited interchange era. Johns specifically being exposed to it at a relatively young age. His theory was that these guys who were going to be good no matter what got better because they played when opposition players, specifically forwards, could come on and off the field over and over to stay fresh. These great halves has to adapt to looking up at a defensive line and seeing no tired defenders and a lineup that might change every set. In the modern game where structure breaks down defense because people wear out, but these guys back in the day did not have the same luxury, and so had to go a step further to still do their job as a playmaker. It meant reading what you saw not what you were told would happen, and you get an Andrew Johns as a result, who especially in origin was elite.

Cleary plays exceptionally well in structured club games because it is what he was developed for, but cannot compete when he looks up and sees a fired up team of maroons who don't break down when he tries to wear them out.
 
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