2013 State Of Origin III - Sydney

Okay so um, firstly, obviously ecstatic. QLD showed the heart that has made us so successful. And to NSW's credit they too competed and spilt their blood for their state. Well done to them.

I thought the refereeing was horrendous. But I won't even bother. I am so sick of Shayne Hayne it's just not worth it. Cummins was okay. I think we got raped in the ruck but again, fuck it.

I would've given motm and possibly the Wally Lewis medal to Corey Parker. Unfortunately that really, really poor miss that we all knew was in him that we thought he'd buried reared it's head at the worst possible time. He knew it too. Other than that though he was excellent

Matt Scott was stellar. I am in awe of this man. My Wally Lewis medal winner by far. Smith was good too but he lacked direction which is not something you hear very often about him. He simply played too much to Cronk on the right.

This one is really gonna hurt. Yes, Justin Hodges had a good series. I think this was one of his best games in his career. The try he scored is nothing compared to the try he saved. Hoffman was over for all money. He made a few other really important tackles too. It's nice, no wait, what's the word? Oh right, horrible, it's horrible to see the cunt walk into the team year after year and under-perform, but it certainly is nice to see him repay the faith. He actually deserved the reverence shown to him, both tonight and throughout this series. He was very good this year. There you go Gemmell ya cunt

I thought McQueen was again surprisingly solid. Papalii was a fucking tank like we all knew he would be. Slater and Dugan gave a masterclass in how to be a fullback with the passing game of a retarded chimpanzee. Couldn't hit water if they were standing on a fucking boat. Woods was, yes Benny, Perry-esque. You know it, I know it. Cunt was utterly useless. Fifita was quite good. Again not really as a prop IMO because he just doesn't offer straight running metres, but he created some excellent second phase play which was sorely needed. I thought he made a few poor misses in defence though. Merrin was shit. Forget the try, that was just terrible defence from Parker. He was shit. Watmough raped us from the bench. Just got us rolling backwards with every carry. Was rubbish in the first two games but back to what he can be tonight. Excellent impact player. Wouldn't start him though.

I actually thought Hoffman had a really good game. He really troubled us on the fringes and nearly scored a try. Nearly got a few breaks for his outside men.

Overall, I think we all knew NSW would struggle for points. And low and behold, they did. Their last tackle options were abysmal. Pearce had tears in his eyes. He wanted this badly but he just isn't cut cut for Origin. From the first touch knocking on, then the first kick shanked. He needs to go.

QLD, I think once again utterly failed to get the left side going. The amount of times we actually gave Inglis the ball with time and space was nothing short of ridiculous. I mean the cunt ran for 77m. Are you shitting me? Give the cunt some early ball ffs. I lost count of how many times Thurston failed to find him when he was clearly in space. We seemed to go right way, way more than to the left. Hodges touched the ball twice as many times as GI. I don't get it.

 

I agree Inglis doesn't look to do enough work from his own end but seriously that doesn't make up for the disparity. We shifted from Cronk/Slater to Hodges a hell of a lot more than through McQueen and Thurston to Inglis. When he did get it in some space he caused his usual havoc.

 

Scott and Tate were awesome.

 

Yeah, except for that clanger of a bomb, Tate was very solid as usual. Cunt is Origin incarnate.

Scott is the prop in the world afaic.

 

Yeah that drop was pretty shit but other than that he made some great runs out of dummy half. Was pretty reliable under bombs apart from one.