Robbie Farah is thrilled mum Sonia will have best seat in the house for Origin II duel with Maroons

THERE is every chance Sonia Farah has lost count of the times she has felt a solemn sense of pride about what her son has achieved.

THERE is every chance Sonia Farah has lost count of the times she has felt a solemn sense of pride about what her son has achieved.

From a premiership with the Wests Tigers to the Australian and NSW jumpers he has won.

On Wednesday night, though, there's every chance there will be no prouder man at ANZ Stadium than Robbie Farah.

His mother will defy the pancreatic cancer she is suffering to watch him play for NSW in Origin II, in another headline match on the game's grandest stage.

Sonia was too ill to travel to Melbourne with the rest of her family to witness Farah's superb display in a losing side in the opening match of the series.

Determined to make sure his mum would not miss game two against the Queenslanders, Farah made an approach to ANZ Stadium officials through Wests Tigers chief executive Stephen Humphreys to ensure her attendance.

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The Tigers captain offered to pay whatever costs were required to make sure she didn't have to sit amongst a heaving crowd of more than 80,000 fans.

ANZ Stadium boss Darryl Kerry did better than that. He obliged with a corporate suite for Sonia and her family to watch the game.

"It will be a special occasion for the Farah family and the families of all the players," Humphreys said. "It's great to know that Sonia will be there proudly watching and cheering for her son and the Blues. It's terrific that we have the kind of people in and around the game who can come together to make that happen."

Only weeks ago, Farah was considered an outsider for the role of Blues hooker. He wasn't an Origin player.

Now, given the spark he provided out of dummy half in game one, he is one of the reasons for a desperate state to believe.

Then again, it is only a match.

When put in perspective, when you consider the fight Farah's mum has on her hands, that is all it is. The thought of her attendance on Wednesday night evokes images from 12 years ago, when Carol Rogers negotiated with her doctors to watch her son Mat play for Australia in the ANZAC Test.

She was gravely ill with breast cancer, and had to ease off on her chemotherapy treatment to attend.

"I've got a lot to live for, if you're not a positive person there is no use in even living as far as I'm concerned," she had said the day before.

The payoff of her persistence wasn't the record 24 points Mat scored, but simply watching as her son represented his country.

"If the game gets a bit tough out there I'll remember what mum's been through and things won't seem too bad compared," Mat said afterwards. "Everyone thinks their mum is like superwoman, they can do everything for you."

Sometimes they can, just by being there.

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