I've had a gutful of State of Origin and it's still a week away.

[Jerry1]

FMD

 

[HoldenV8]

NSW are beating themselves here. Not much grace being shown under pressure.

 

[torana355]

NSW did well, i had QLD at 13+ We never had the players to beat QLD, Pearce and Hokko...pffft.

 

[Jerry1]

Shocking NSW.......

 

[HoldenV8]

Did Qld win or did NSW lose? The Blues had 2 or 3 perfect FG opportunities late to either take the lead or tie it up and they stuffed up each time.

 

[Fluffy]

and a solid 4-2 penalty count see the Qlders home,

Looked like they took a play from Canterbury on the Dugan field goal being a mile offside.

NSW chose to take a play from Manly for the previous field goal attempt

 

[KOMORI]

I guess nothing unusual there. NSW almost look the goods but fold when the pressure is on, whereas the QLD spine just delivers..

 

[Pablo]

FATfita has Concrete shoes

 

[Deleted member 24974]

Average game.
Hoppa is not half the player he was at Manly.

 

[niccipops]

Blues should have kept cool heads. They were in that game big time.

 

[dowdz]

Hoppa should never have been picked. NSW really bombed that game.

 

[EagleFromMay1967]

glad there were no MWSE players involved, er apart from Myles that is . . .

 

[Simonmyers11]

Could of easily won that game if we came out to play second half. Refs were pretty ordinary and nsw were there own worst enemies most of the time. Farah was terrible second half. Boring game, both sides off side all night, hold downs, slow, mistakes etc smith is a grub!

 

[Simonmyers11]

Not too fussed, can sleep tonight ok - not like if Manly lose however , thats harder to take

 

[Terry Zarsoff]

Fell asleep with about 20 mins to go. What happened...

 

[Shoe1]

It was so obvious what nsw had to do. But the chessmen on the field wouldn't move into position to execute. Reminds me of our own team a bit this year.

 

[eaglebuzz]

Get rid of Farah, Hodkinson, Pearce, Jennings, Cordner and Tupou.

Other than those guys NSW played pretty well.

 

[Shoe1]

Myles did fine I think. Some of those penalties to qld though were baffling and not consistent with the run of the game, as usual. It really is a yawn fest in that respect.

 

[Stuey Davis’s Socks]

So the best way to set up for a field goal is to run to the far right hand side of the field on the fifth tackle play. Jeez that ****s me off. Just dumb dumb play. Hodkinson or Farrah just have to take control in a situation like that

 

[Ron E. Gibbs]

It was so obvious what nsw had to do. But the chessmen on the field wouldn't move into position to execute. Reminds me of our own team a bit this year.

That second half was like watching us play Penrith at Brookvale all over again, right up to stuffing up a perfect field goal opportunity. I enjoyed it even less the second time.