one of the best origin games in a long while.

david williams aside, NSW were brilliant across the park

anthony watmough killed it from start to finish.

ennis and kimmorley were the big difference to previous games.

shame nobody smashed hodges

What was Creagh doing at the end though. He give him a shove and then ran back 10 meters when Hodges came at him.

And NSW will slope off (GB style) having won a dead rubber thinking they are competitive in a series...

But then again, what is?



Great game, although there were a lot of handling errors. I was expectign NSW to roll over and lose by a heavy score but they produced their best performance for the past couple of years and the two touchline tackles in the second half were superb. Waterhouse should not have been sent off and I didn't really see why Creagh and Thaiday were sin binned.

Yet again the athleticism and intensity stood out and we will never be able to match it.

ennis played well off the back of a very dominant forward pack. kimmorley was a massive difference, the team was composed and the forwards went forward.

Why not - they're only human, so it should be possible to train our humans to match the athleticism at least.

Spot on.
First game was only close with freaky bounces and rebounds off players.
SOO III the Ref gave everything to NSW.
They deserved their win but as many said they did it opposite to the norm.
Rather than use old hands in the first game and if they don't get up give youth a chance they did the opposite.
Used youth and discarded them for old proven players.
What happens next year with no young foundations?
England will face this dilemma in the next series.

waterhouse 1st player sent off since 2001

NSW still had problems but they lucked into a few selctions in the third game. If not for injuries that team would have looked very different.


We needed to get the likes of White, Waterhouse and Leroy-Lahrs in game one. We needed to run out a pack that would be a problem and it came too late.

Kimmorley was ok but I felt Barrett was rubbish.

Ennis was good but he had more to work with than poor old Robbie Farah did.

They need to dump Gidley and Williams. Gidley reminds me way to much or Paul Wellens.....he gives nothing running the ball back.


QLD have some problems though.

Through this series up the middle of the park they had nothing. Cameron Smith is average now, he provides nothing in attack. The QLD props were good but outside of that, they were handled easily up the middle third of the field.

QLD got by on the back of the likes of Folau, Hodges and Inglis. If you take away their sheer brilliance, Queensland attack was very bloody ordinary.


Thats something to look at for NSW for the future.

absolute disgrace of a send off.

wrong . look at the game

Good atmosphere, good rugby at times (although loads of mistakes as well), good bit of biff, an 8 point try, a sending off, a fantastic effort from Hodges even if he didn't get the result... all in all a pretty entertaining 80 minutes. Skill wise though, it wasn't much different from top end SL games I have seen.

i bet that the marons would beat almost all the national sides (including the kiwis) brilliant showing yet again.

Wanna buy some magic beans?

about 54,000 a record for suncorp . the old lang park

If it'd been a club game I'd of turned it off at ht and gone and mown the lawn! Another disapointing game imo. 1st half was no better than SOO2. Worse series in my memory.

but you missed out

and nsw were. go back to the sin bin zzzzzzzzzzzz

You are surely taking the mick arent you. Or do you realy believe the game that finished at 10am UK time (7pm Aus time) wasnt last years decider

You should follow another sport or perhaps move back "home"
I hope Western Australian never get another shot at the NRL with so called "fans" like you.
Proven Judases anyway, nothing worse than the people that turn on the people that gave them a chance.

yawn



some people are easily pleased! I've seen a dozen club games this year that were better quality than either SOO2 or 3.

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With the same intensity?

Let me ask you this.
Did you ever play the game or do you still play at any level?

Are you selling? If so how much.

the last 5 mins was brilliant.

shame the biff didnt go for longer

when qld got the penalty and kicked to nsw you could tell it was on

queensland were poor this series.

had nsw picked the right team throughout, theyd have won it

kimmorley and ennis clearly the difference between having farah and wallace who did nothing

throw in brett stewart next year and jamie soward ?

lockyer might retire, price and petero are getting on

queensland are very beatable