State of Yawnigan ..

Cantab79

The refereeing was interesting to say the least. I can't ever remember a player being sinbinned but not conceding a penalty, which is what happened to Fifita last night. I thought the referees were very harsh on QLD and allowed the Blues to get away with murder. In saying that it was a cracking try to win the game with 90 seconds left.

antipodean

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Origin is a woeful sack of bullshit.
 
Big Trouble in Little China was on another channel. Fucking great movie
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Kim Cattrall was fucking hot in that movie.
 
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yep, stay classy you grubby fuck heads
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Lead by Paul Gallen, what else do you expect?
 
Hahahaha: <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.facebook.com/NRLHumour/videos/vb.359074060812727/1057888564264603/?type=2&theater'>https://www.facebook.com/NRLHumour/videos/vb.359074060812727/1057888564264603/?type=2&theater</a>

Cantab79

Also, how was Jenning's not ruled offside in the lead up to the Fifita try? The QLD defender ran a line to try and block Jennings, allowing Fifita to score. That was totally bewildering.

mariner4life

That was an astounding ruling. There were a few others that i thought were rough, but that just seemed wrong. How can a bloke in a 4 way run to the line, who gets in front of a defending player, be judged to have no impact on the play? 
 
Massively lop-sided penalty count leading to a massive advantage in field position and possession, and you still need a late try to win. It's not quite the renaissance that some would like to believe.
 
 
Given tonight, i think both teams could look quite different next year. NSW are obviously going to head down a youth path, and rightly so, those guys have been their best. But i think a few Qld forwards may have come to the end of the road as well. Parker has obviously already gone, but i think Myles, Lilyman and Thaiday have had their time, and Guerra just isn't good enough.

Sneakdefreak

NSW should be able to peg a few wins back in the coming years. Queensland lack some forward options plus I like the new talent for NSW.

Tedesco 2. Ferguson 3. Bird 4. Dugan 5. Mansour 6. Austin 7. J. Reynolds 8. Woods (c) 9. Peats 10. Fifita 11. Cartwright 12. Frizell 13. Jackson Bench: 14. Moylan 15. Tamou 16. Klemmer 17. Yeo 
No Farah, Gallen, Greg Bird etc? I can support that.

mariner4life

Awesome, if this is true, then Gallen is a massive, massive, sook, and it's some expert level sledging.
 
The NSW blokes walked off during the speeches because:
 
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">â€œThe Queenslanders picked on him and suggested that he was responsible for the losing culture, theyâ€™ve only won one series out of 11. And it was his farewell party, yet there werenâ€™t that many fans there, there were only 61,000 people out there at (82,000 capacity) ANZ Stadium
 
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MN5

Was it my imagination or was Gallen voted as having the best individual performance in Origin history some years back ?
 
I personally don't get the blind hatred so many seem to have for him, perhaps I would if I watched league like I used to.

aucklandwarlord

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Was it my imagination or was Gallen voted as having the best individual performance in Origin history some years back ?
 
I personally don't get the blind hatred so many seem to have for him, perhaps I would if I watched league like I used to.
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I think Gallen is a solid and reliable player and I'd be stoked if he played for the Warriors or Queensland, but at some point you can't ignore the fact that he's probably the least successful captain in Origin history. While some of that comes down to the fact that Queensland had a freakishly good team, they really blew their chances in some of the series' that perhaps might have gone a different way under a different leader. A quote from James Hooper, a sports journo in Aussie re the Smith snub sums Gallen up for me.
 
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"The way I see it, that's simply sour grapes," Hoopah said. "Paul Gallen's legacy as a footballer ... look, I think he's going to be remembered primarily as a bad sport surrounding a lot of things.
"If you look at the classy sports people around the world - the Roger Federers, the Steve Waughs, those types of characters - they're statesmen, they're leaders in every essence of the word. Cameron Smith's certainly one that springs to mind in rugby league.
"But in the case of Paul Gallen, you can go back over his career - whether you want to be grabbing opposition players on the wheels (testicles), racially vilifying opposition players, the peptides, all that sort of jazz - the rap sheet's a mile long.
"In this instance I just feel it is really poor taste and poor sportsmanship and I think Queensland and the game of rugby league is going to remember Paul Gallen for all the wrong reasons for a long, long time."
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That said, half of the Queensland team were fucking around during Smith's speech as well. Nate Myles and Corey Oates, who were standing right next to Corey Parker while Smith was summing up his contribution were busy laughing, joking, throwing towels and things through the camera shot, so it's hardly like Smith's speech was rousing his own team as well!

Sneakdefreak

It was a dead rubber match. The victory speech was given after game two and that was when a good coach would have dumped all the loser veterans in NSW for the next generation of talent.

Rancid Schnitzel

I just took a look at the former NSW captains. Daley, Fitter, Johns, Sterling, Pearce, Mortimer, Miller etc.
 
These were guys even Qlders could respect and admire. But Gallen? The guy is a repulsively deformed grub with a ridiculous whining cartoonish voice. Unless he's on your team there is literally nothing to like or admire about that guy.

The Silver Fern

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