Don't think Kimmorley is a chance, unless Pearce is injured. Him and Pearce are pretty much the same player at Origin level anyway, and either one would go OK, as long as they had some creative and dominant players around them (Farah, Carney, whoever the **** else)
Just re-watching Game 3 again, the difference in prop interchanges between states is quite interesting. 18th minute - King comes off for TLL. 21st minute - Snowden comes off for Watmough. 25th minute - Civoniceva is replaced by Shillington. 25th minute - Scott is replaced by Taylor. 48th minute - Scott and Civoniceva return for their second spell with Shillington and Taylor returning back to the bench. 50th minute - Mannah comes on for Lewis. 52nd minute - King returns for his second spell with TLL going off. 59th minute - Gallen comes off for Ennis. 61st minute - Snowden finally gets back for his second stint with Mannah off (Why he only got 11 minutes is beyond me). 65th minute - TLL returns for King. 70th minute - Gallen returns for Watmough. 71st minute - Thaiday and Shillington replace Civoniceva and Scott. 75th minute - Watmough comes back on for TLL. Snowden ended up playing 40 minutes and King, 31 (Stats say 35 but I've checked three times - He only played 31). TLL played 43, Watmough 54, and Mannah 11. Civoniceva and Scott both played 48 minutes. Now 8 minutes may not seem like much (17 certainly is; it's nearly a quarter of a match ffs) but I would emphasise the times above. If they're there to create the platform, on which the rest of the attack depends, it's no good not having them out there to do it when the game is in the balance and forward domination is yet to be decided. QLD's starting props stayed out there for longer in the first stint, came back on earlier for the second, and compared to King, stayed on for longer again. Frankly, I think QLD have the better interchange and rotation policies. Nobody can blame NSW for not having the quality prop stocks that QLD do but surely if you're going to match them, you either need to pick more of them, or make the ones you do pick, play just as many minutes, if not more. until they get this right, success will be very limited IMO. Giving Mannah only 11 minutes is downright absurd, especially given how many metres he was making.
It's no surprise that the QLD starting forwards stayed on longer then NSW's in the first stint seeing we were defending for 80% of it.
You still don't want to be changing your side too much, nothing worse than constant reshuffles and defending next too a different bloke every 10 minutes.
Then please explain Game 1. 17th minute - Perry comes off for White. 19th minute - Civoniceva replaced by Shillington. 19th minute - Weyman off for TLL. 28th minute - Scott comes off for Costigan (Amazing first stint by Scott). NSW had both props off before the 20 minute mark.
Great timing and footwork in traffic by Billy. Also awesome ballplay and vision by Locky, keeping Gallen and Snowden on their heels and keeping Barrett interested too.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/ref-called-a-fng-cheat/story-e6frexnr-1225895300271 No doubt the new Cronulla and NSW captain for 2011 if Stuart gets the job.
Let's make it that way - Was Gallen suspended? What Thurston did was not worse. Gallen not only swore at the referee, he questioned his integrity and impartiality.
It was just foolish, I couldnt blame him for being frustrated as there was some disgraceful calls in that particular game but swearing and telling the ref he should be man of the match isnt exactly smart lol
Calling the ref the man of the match could be seen just as bad as calling him a cheat lol Thats basically the implication, thats how I see it anyway. I think it was equally as bad and he got charged for it.
