Controversial NSW policy shot to pieces
Some of the NRL’s biggest stars have been given an unnerving message that the curtain has been brought down on NSW’s controversial policy.
Some of the NRL’s biggest stars have been given an unnerving message that the curtain has been brought down on NSW’s controversial policy.
The shoots of the future were on show for NSW in their stirring Origin III victory – with Bradman Best among a host of young stars to give Blues fans optimism about the future.
Brad Fittler has explained why Panthers coach Ivan Cleary was seen inside his inner sanctum during the Blues’ big Game 3 win.
Maroons mentor Billy Slater out-coached Brad Fittler for most of this year’s Origin series, but the Queenslander made one key error.
Daly Cherry-Evans and Paul Green’s nightmare continued in a press conference that drew the indignation of former Origin legends.
It wasn’t what Beetson and Meninga said to their troops that mattered. It was that those troops dreaded letting them down. The same can’t be said for Paul Green.
NSW has inflicted absolute embarrassment on Queensland with Maroons legends left furious by the damning result.
Maroons legend Paul Vautin has been heard writing off his own state in a brutal sledge picked up off camera during the Origin telecast.
Ugly records have tumbled at Queensland’s Origin fortress, quickly turning the jokes about Wayne Bennett returning into pleas.
The NSW Blues have put in one of the great State of Origin performances at Suncorp Stadium — too bad Queensland “didn’t fire a shot”.
Shattered and saddened by his Origin ousting, Ronaldo Mulitalo has called out the NRL’s double standard on flexibility for some players but not others.
Was it an ugly sleight on a teammate or just a moment of pure Origin rivalry? Either way, Latrell paid for it moments later.
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