Gus Gould instilled the will to win Origins in Blues coach Ricky Stuart

YOU know those oratories Phil Gould does as he stares down the barrel of the camera just minutes out from an Origin telecast on Channel 9?

YOU know those oratories Phil Gould does as he stares down the barrel of the camera, as he walks with purpose beneath the crossbar, just minutes out from an Origin telecast on Channel 9?

Laurie Daley is one of those few who has heard it in the dressingroom, or in a team meeting, when it has meant something more than pumping up an expectant television audience.

It was 1992. Gould was in his first year as NSW coach; Daley in his first year as the Blues captain.

"You know what he's like," Daley says. "I don't remember anything specific of what he said, but every time he did speak it was one of those occasions when he talks for 20 or 30 minutes and everyone is listening to every word he says.

"You want to go and play straight away. He gave us an understanding of what we were up against. The machine that is Queensland."

Knowing the enemy and how much they wanted it was the central theme Gould fostered that year and it proved decisive: the Blues won the decider to reclaim the trophy.

Doubtless, it planted a seed in the mind of the halfback in games two and three that year, should he ever become a coach, decades later.

Surely now, as Ricky Stuart prepares his side for Wednesday's deciding match in Brisbane, he is thinking of the same principles instilled in him during Gould's first season in charge.

That year, Stuart missed game one at the Sydney Football Stadium because of injury.

In the first half, lock Brad Clyde went off early because of injury. Then Daley's head collected the hip of Maroons centre Peter Jackson and before he realised what had happened he was waking up in the dressingroom, before later being taken to hospital with severe headaches.

Despite the adversity, up against the likes of Meninga and Langer and Lindner and Walters (Kevin and Steve), the Blues triumphed 14-6.

Game two at a seething Lang Park was played in driving rain. Stuart was back but still carrying niggling complaints. So was Daley.

There were all-in brawls, and signature scrappy Origin play. In the end, a late Langer field goal was the difference.

Queensland won 5-4, but as far as Gould was concerned that was about it.

"I was confident going into the decider," Gould recalls. In the deciding match in Sydney, on a dry track, Stuart was at his scheming best.

He scored the opening try from a set move and impudently controlled the play in the same way he did for Canberra back then.

A dynasty started. From there, NSW won the next two series under Gould, led by Daley and sparked by Stuart.

"We set some standards there that we carried through the next three years," Gould says. "It was a great team.

"They really bought into the Origin concept. They set the trend for NSW from there on."

A trend his old halfback wants to start anew.