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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 18: British & Irish Lions captain, Maro Itoje (L) poses with Australia Wallabies captain, Harry Wilson during a media opportunity at the Stamford Plaza Hotel on July 18, 2025 in Brisbane, Australia. The British & Irish Lions will play the Australia Wallabies in the first test match tomorrow at the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane. (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images)

‘Never feel we can’t win’: Raging Bull warns Lions about Australian spirit

The Wallabies are massive underdogs to beat the Lions at Suncorp Stadium, but Lions coach Andy Farrell was reminded of the peril in that scenario when he bumped into a former rival and Maroons legend.

  • Iain Payten

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Origin players inhaling from buckets before the match.

The pungent potion that’s become a pre-match ritual in the NRL

Queensland team doctor Matthew Hislop has revealed the concoction inhaled by NRL players before they take to the field.

  • Frances Howe
Wayne Bennett and Allan Langer after a 2001 State of Origin victory.

Until Blues find their own Wayne Bennett they won’t get Origin

Can the NSWRL find someone who can deliver true passion to the Blues’ cause – and stop the rot?

  • Neil Breen
Cameron Munster

Cam Munster had just lost his father. Somehow, he found the strength to crack a joke

Queensland icon Wally Lewis visited Maroons training to pay his respects, and was soon on the end of a gag from the Queensland No.6. It was the moment that said it all about the Maroons skipper.

  • Danny Weidler
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Melbourne overpower Knights to stay in hunt for minor premiership

Without stars Cameron Munster, Xavier Coates and Ryan Papenhuyzen, Melbourne started slowly but finished off strongly in Newcastle

  • Robert Dillon, Michael Chammas, Adrian Proszenko and Dan Walsh
The NSW plays and errors that cost them the Origin series.

The seven deadly sins that cost NSW series they never should have lost

The Blues came with more talent, more experience and the better side on paper, only for Queensland to once again school them in the art of Origin.

  • Dan Walsh
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Billy Slater and Cameron Munster

What Slater told Munster during their full-time Origin embrace

The emotional exchange between the Queensland coach and captain, who played just three days after the death of his father, is destined to become an iconic Origin image.

  • Christian Nicolussi
Billy Slater

I was there for Daley’s first strategy meeting. Slater was already stalking the Blues

The Queensland coach proved a rugby league revolutionary, making a string of bold selection calls that paid off spectacularly. Laurie Daley stood still … and perished.

  • Roy Masters
Billy Slater.

Decider squeezed 45 years of Origin tropes into one 80-minute package

Before their home crowd, the Blues were so confident that they could even afford a couple of early mistakes. Then something happened. Queensland happened.

  • Malcolm Knox
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JULY 09: Tom Dearden of the Maroons scores a try during game three of the Men’s State Of Origin series between New South Wales Blues and Queensland Maroons at Accor Stadium on July 09, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)

‘I’ve never felt like this’: Seven moments which sealed Maroons’ triumph

They had been written off and cast aside. That is exactly how the Maroons like it, and these moments proved the decisive ones in their series triumph.

  • Nick Wright

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