State of Origin
A great Game
I think its always best when we win in the last minute by just a kick. It gives the Blues and the state of NSW the whole game to live in hope only to have their hopes dashed at the last minute.
Makes the victory all the sweeter particularly when 4.8 million witnessed the game.
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The football players need to harden up instead of appealing to the referee every five minutes for some alleged indiscretion by an opposing player; then go ahead and do exactly the same thing they were appealing about.
I thought it fitting therefore that the ‘hooker’ (I forget his name, and besides what does a hooker do now – he never sees the ball in the scrum)may not have fumbled the ball if he concentrated on playing the ball so that an equalising field goal could be made by one of his team mates.
But instead he was making eye contact with the referee, took his eye off the ball and fumbled. This from a professional football player!
Oh, and how can a try be awarded when sheparding was involved?
We wuz robbed!!!!
Firstly I thought it was one of the most honest matches I saw in a long time. I thought the field goal was the difference
King Wally Lewis agreed it was against the spirit of the shepherd of years gone by but again the try held up against the goal post would have been awarded in a by gone era. He said both these things in commentary when they occured.
I thought the main difference was defences, NSW line was bunched when Queensland was in attack on too many occasions.
It was a great game and extra time would have made it a cracker.
Cav
That would be Robbie Farah.
I don’t understand why scrums are still part of Rugby League. They’re generally symbolic/decorative and possession is very rarely contested.
The funniest part of the commentary was the unveiling of the Artie Beetson statue, when the new LNP minister for sport, Steve Dickson, displayed his abysmal lack of knowledge of rugby league history when he said Beetson had played 300 games for Queensland.
Queenslanders who follow Rugby league know he played just three – his first the historic first State of Origin match in 1980. Only 99 state of origin matches have ever been played, so God knows where he plucked 300 games from – his backside probably.
Artie Beetson also played twice for Queensland in 1981 when only one Origin match a year was played. He had moved north that year to coach and captain Redcliffe, but did not play Origin.
You weren’t robbed, but you were unlucky.
Mate, if you reckon the players in that game should harden up, you should watch a game of Aussie Rules. Used to be a game for men, now its becoming a game for athletes and the heart is being torn out of it by trying to remove the heavy contact and at the same time turning the ground level ball contests into something akin to Union to watch. Umpires have been given interpretive powers and are unaccountable.
“Only 99 state of origin matches” make that 95 – 1 match only in 1980 and 1981.