Kevin Walters turns the air blue talking about the Maroons

It took his team copping a thrashing to get the Queensland Origin coach to tell us what he really thinks, writes MIKE COLMAN.

The look on Will Chambers’ face says it all - but that didn;t stop Kevin Walters putting it into words after Sunday night’s Origin debacle. Picture: Paul Kane/Getty Images.

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Well, at least there was one positive to come out of Sunday night’s debacle.

Looks like Kevvie Walters got his mojo back.

I don’t know about you but I was starting to find that whole New Age Guy thing that Kevvie was going through very disturbing.

Not that he was ever one to blow his top but when he started dropping the f-word and threatening players with the sack at fulltime it was like a breath of fresh air.

Queensland coach Kevin Walters, seen leaving the team hotel in Perth, yesterday was like a bear with a sore head after his side’s humiliating loss. Picture: Dave Hunt/AAP

Forget conferring with the coach whisperer. Kevvie was going old-school all on his own.

And not a moment too soon either.

How are the Maroons going to consistently do a job on NSW if they’re not allowed to even mention NSW?

How are they going to revisit all the reasons why they want to rip the Blues apart if they’ve been programmed to remove the colour blue from their mental spectrum?

And how are they going to get angry if the environment around them is bubbling with love, positivity and, God forbid, tears?

Now I’m no psychologist (if I was I’d be charging footy coaches a couple of grand an hour to teach them how to suck eggs) but it does seem to me that the Maroons were over-thinking things.

True, they did win the first game thanks to some clever mind games, plenty of guts and a rip-roaring Suncorp Stadium crowd, but it was always going to be a hard act to follow.

Especially in Perth.

Kevin Walters wasn’t the only Maroon to have a bad night in Perth, with - from left - Cameron Munster, Kalyn Ponga, Michael Morgan and Corey Oates looking like they rather be anywhere else. Picture: Dave Hunt/AAP

Apart from Kevvie’s colourful description of the inadequacies of Kalyn Ponga’s kick-off, one part of his post-match media conference that stood out was his comment about Game III.

“We now have to go to Sydney,” he said.

“Which is a great Origin venue.”

Meaning Perth is not?

Obviously not for the Maroons anyway.

To bring them back up after the euphoria of Game I the Queenslanders needed to feel like they were still under the pump; that they were venturing into the lions’ den,

From the look of them it appeared they thought they were on their annual holiday. A five and a quarter hour flight can do that to you.

Particularly to a city where no-one has a clue who you are or what game you play – or could give a rat’s.

No, Kevvie is 100 per cent right. What his team needs is to get down to Sydney where they’ll be treated with all the respect of a bag of old laundry. Where their luggage gets lost accidentally on purpose at the airport and everyone from cab drivers to hotel porters wants to tell them how big a margin they’re going to lose by.

That’s what they need if they’re going to play like a Queensland Origin team – to be treated like a Queensland Origin team.

By the opposition and by their coach.

You reckon Kevvie won’t be mentioning the Blues players in the lead-up up to the decider?

I reckon he’ll have dartboards with their faces on them installed in the team dining room.

It’ll all be about how NSW humiliated them. Not just on Sunday, but between 1908 and 1981.

And not just how they humiliated Queensland teams, but the entire State.

That’s the key, right there. That’s their secret weapon. The feeling that while the Blues think it would be good to shut up those hillbillies from north of the border, the Maroons think that if they don’t win they are letting down the entire state.

It’s a subtle difference but a very powerful one and, given what we saw after fulltime on Sunday night, one that Kevvie will be tapping into over the next couple of weeks.

Because as we all now know, even the f----ing kick-off on Sunday night pissed him off.