Greats agree - get ready for fireworks

ORIGIN game two is certain to explode. NSW and Queensland players are all on notice ahead of tonight's do or die clash at ANZ Stadium.

ORIGIN game two is certain to explode. NSW and Queensland players are all on notice ahead of tonight's do or die clash at ANZ Stadium.

NSW Origin legend Andrew Johns and Queensland hero Darren Lockyer yesterday declared tensions would spectacularly spill over during the early exchanges.

Johns yesterday said tonight's blockbuster was rigged to blow because of a flammable mixture of a heated game one, spiteful build-up to game two and the promise of another sea of blue in the stands at Sydney Olympic Park.

"Without doubt it's going to boil over," Johns said after a partnership announcement between the NRL's backyard league program and Coles at Rugby League Central.

"I've been really surprised actually how much banter there has been between the two camps. Normally it gets shut down. Normally, you don't want to give your opposition too much ammo. But it's sort of been pistols at 10 paces this year. It just adds to the theatre.

"I think it's going to make for an explosive game."

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Lockyer said he could sense that hatred for Queensland south of the Tweed had risen to an almost unprecedented level during the Maroons' era of dominance.

"I don't think there's going to be a deliberate tactic to start a 'cattledog', but I think there is that much intensity in the build up, that there is a good chance that emotions are going to flow over early in the game," Lockyer said. "The build up was pretty big for Game I, but nothing like what it has been for this game."

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