Queensland...currently best sports team in Australia. 6 zip approaches.

I agree with you on a few points there CGD.
Lewis for sure is the best in the game and had a blinder the other day. Sticky cant say he's left him out because he's been injured because Jennings and Gasnier didn't play at the weekend because both are injured. Dean Young can hardly train because of some sort of injury and he's been picked. Jason King has been injured i think aswell and hasn't been any great shakes anyway this year or any other year for that matter, he's not even the best prop at the Sea Eagles and there's probably 10 props who are better than him i could name. Tolman has unbelievable stats every single week, near on 20 carries and 40 tackles a week playing 70 odd minutes and he doesn't get picked, he cant do anymore. There's not a prop in the game do what he does every week. Snowden seems to be in favour with all the selectors, getting in the Test side and Origin starter this year and last but i dont think he's all that great TBH. He's good but not that good to be demanding selection. He wouldn't make the QLD side IMO either.
Ricky Stuart is saying now that he thinks Hayne should move from FB and start playing at No.6 as he's better in that position. Anderson did it and it was a disaster although he does play like another half at times anyway.
Ben Creagh from the bench is pointless, Lewis should be starting with Gallen and Bird and someone coming from the bench who will offer some impact. Creagh wont and neither would Scott and Dean Young is only there because Gidley is injured and they want someone to come on at hooker for a bit.
It's not a bad side but it could be better and they'll change the side when they get injured players back anyway after they lose the first game. Gidley and Lewis are certain to come back in for game 2 unless NSW get a win which i cant see. Jennings doesn't deserve a place in the side either, he's only there because Matt Cooper wouldn't play, i'd rather see Josh Morris but he's been injured aswell lately.

I am waiting to see what the bookies ahve to offer....NSW need a bit of luck.....and a winning mentality. QLD should win.......but I thought the Storm would hammer the green machine at the weekend........stranger things have happened.

I would also say that a 1-1 situation with a winner takes all third game would do the TV negotiations no harm at all

Just kill it off already and play internationals instead.

WTF
Origin is friggin brilliant..........I don't care if QLD win 20 on the trot.....at some stage NSW will get it right (even if it's with a team full of tongans )

Internationals will eventually kill it off and relegate it back to where it belongs.

If the ARL put even half the amount of promotion into International RL that they do for the SO poaching, in a few seasons the crowds and ratings would belt it.(ratings for the ANZAC test shown on a Friday up against other sports show it really isn't that far behind SOO already which has no sporting competition on a Wednesday)

Nearly every tri nations and 4 nations (outside France and Png) since 2005 have shiit on SOO from a great height and have been far more competitive.

The last ashes series was absolutely brilliant footy that went down to the wire in each game, these matches deserve to be put in their rightful place on the sporting calendar, ie, the TOP.

origin is the highest rating sport on australian tv,how can u kill that off.

By building up the other parts of the game.

yes i like the international game to grow,but it has nothing to do with origin.

It's holding it back mate.

I don't know if it's holding it back but rl needs to be aware of player burn out to it's top players.

Uate selection is a joke. The fact he is Fijian seems to have slipped by certain NSW based writers.

He isn't the first and he won't be the last.
2008 RLWC Fijian Player......what are the odds.....2013 RLWC Australian Player

A push for Naiqama will be next.

Hayne, Uate, Wes...

Just pinch the whole Fijian RL team and get it over with.

I am sick and tired of hearing Gould and Warren going on about Origin and how it takes some kind of super human player to be able withstand the riggors of the game. Its a joke this is currently a very uneven contest between a Queensland backline and a very average NSW side.

Anyone who has watched the past 3/4 series knows this is anything but the supreme contest. Good job they don't have a few Kiwis playing in it - although looking at the NSW selection policy it can only be a question of time - that might give it a bit of intensity.

It is just a game of rugby played amongst the players from the second best country in the sport not some clash of the titans - some people need to get a perspective