2017 State of Origin Game 2

[Budgie]

All this whinging about the refs but ya gotta give it to Queensland. They learn from their mistakes. They didn't knock Pearce out this time so he couldn't come back for the second half!

 

[ricardo]

I got the feeling the game was a "Let's make sure game 3 isn't a dead rubber and let's give JT the Suncorp Sendoff Victory he deserves" about 15 minutes in.

Deadset stitch up.

 

[Danly Manly]

Wade graham and Jarryd Hane are the two main reasons we lost. And Matt Checchin is a ****house ref....


Matt Cecchin is an Queensland biased rugby league referee in the National Rugby League (NRL) and is known as the grasshopper2 or the fixer and has performed brilliantly for teams north of the Tweed.

He has officiated at the 2011 Four Nations and fixed matches during the 2012 State of Origin series.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Cecchin

 

[eaglebuzz]

I got the feeling the game was a "Let's make sure game 3 isn't a dead rubber and let's give JT the Suncorp Sendoff Victory he deserves" about 15 minutes in.

Deadset stitch up.

I got that feeling 3 weeks ago. Origin is a joke right now.

 

[SeaEagleRock8]

Pearce and Maloney escape any criticism, pretty hard to guide your team home when you have powerful forwards, an injured opposition 5/8 and only lead by 10 at halftime.

 

[Kiwi Eagle]

Pearce and Maloney escape any criticism, pretty hard to guide your team home when you have powerful forwards, an injured opposition 5/8 and only lead by 10 at halftime.

Pearce copping it everywhere I look, quite predictably, he wasn't all that bad though

NSW absolutely smashed Qld across the park for 1.5games, making metres at will and getting down into Qlds end comfortably

I'm quite sure that their game plan didn't change at halftime of this match in regards to their style of play, so why the sudden momentum change ? All of a sudden a pack up rolling over the top of the opposition at will can't make any headway with a shortened 10, halves have no room to move, while another pack gets handy little leg ups out of their own half

NSW certainly didn't help themselves at all in that 2nd half, but the rules all of a sudden went in a different direction from the first 120mins of the series

 

[globaleagle]

Andrew Johns' spray was a good'un.

 

[HoldenV8]

Pearce copping it everywhere I look, quite predictably, he wasn't all that bad though

Where was he when the game was on the line? Where was he when NSW could have put the game out of Qld's reach? As he has done so often in Origin, when it came to the crunch Mitchell Pearce was MIA when it counted. Cronk and especially Thurston were battered and bruised. Yet they were there when their team needed them most.

That's the difference between a good player and a great player. Pearce is a good player in club football, but he doesn't have the ability to take his game to the next level. He's had what, 15, 16 Origin chances now? And he's only been on the winning team 5 times and never in a winning series.

Too right he's copping it. And so should the selectors for continually picking him when its been obvious for years that he doesn't have what it takes. His old man wasn't a naturally gifted footballer, but he had heart and desire that got him through to the top. His son doesn't have that.

 

[Little Grubber Kick]

Sadly this referees deciding matches BS is only going to stop when fans start voting with their feet and their wallets. Until then it's only going to keep getting worse.

Yes, the fact is there were 84K there despite all the previous SOO riggings. The 'owners' of the game are well versed in human behavioural sciences...

Will the refs get dropped for all their missed errors? Never seen such crap. Not such a spectacle when those "in charge" can't even get basic calls wrong.

No they won't, they only get dropped for 'unofficial' errors. This was demonstrated recently with the Uate try knock on.

 

[manly al]

Tough loss for Blue"s supporters and commiserations and the Blue"s really should have had that one after their dominant first half . Despite a faltering N S W and a couple of favorable ref calls in the 2 n d half , Qld still deserve some credit for capitalizing on their 2 n d half opportunities and really so reminiscent of the last ten years or so . Good to see Jake go so well and gee he must be a strong bugger. Also hope that all silver tails members who were at the game still enjoyed the occasion. Anyway i am still more maroon and white Manly then maroon Q L D and so on to other important things in life like GO MANLY against the Sharkies this Sunday

 

[Kiwi Eagle]

Where was he ? Down on his own line defending as qld had all the ball and field position

He wasn't outstanding, and he wasn't terrible. Can take the past record into account, but as was pointed out before game 1, his current Origin record is better than Lockyer after the same amount of games

Quite simply, right now, Pearce is the best 7 in NSW by a wide margin

 

[Little Grubber Kick]

It's like boxing became when Don King got involved.
I stopped watching that and I'm done with this.
I only watched the first one because of Jake.
Fargo won't be missed next time.

hah, my first viewing of a SOO since 2012, and only because Jake was playing. They will need half the NSW team to be Manly players before I watch another one...

 

[Little Grubber Kick]

So very predictable, said it earlier in the thread, refs would give QLD an advantage to even up the series.

Thurston' last game , Chan Nein wanting a gazillion viewers, Suncorp needing a sell out, totally scripted!!

Best player for QLD, Matt Checcin.

That said NSW just not good enough in the second half!!

Yes all very predictable, though the last sentence seems like text book cognitive dissonance. Can you give us an idea of how good you would need to be to win a rigged, scripted game? Something like 40-0 good?, I mean so good they don't bother trying to stick with the script?