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Tonight, in melbourne should be an awesome game

on a dry track with no wind (i beleive its under the roof isnt it?)

hopefully queensland can come back and win the series instead of losing for the fourth time in a row. should be a good game.

in my opinion queensland have played the better football for longer. first half of first game they were down 14-0 (i think) and ended up losing 17-16 (right? this is just off the top of my head)

second game totally outplayed new south wales and hopefully can hold them off again.

what are your thoughts? if anyone has thoughts
 
QLD to win

They got too many Raiders whom were born to play Rep footy

Mog, Shif, and Mal

Gaz @ 5/8th is crap

The only thing going for the blues is that Hunt is out, thus the Locky/Hunt combo will suffer

Dont you worry I am getting all sky blued tonight @ Easts Leagues

$$ on QLD - So if we lose the series i am taking something out of it

Best Bets
1st Try - Mogg
Last Try - Mogg
MoM - Shif
80Min margin - DRAW
 
Originally posted by sanzar+Jul 5 2006, 03:50 PM-->
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@Jul 5 2006, 12:38 PM
QLD to win

Gaz @ 5/8th is crap
Yeah, he is... it's gonna cost us the match for sure. [/b]
Yep

Based on our last halves performance, if NSW dont have designated specialists in the halves - We will get eaten up

Locky/Thurston v Gower/Gasnier

its about 90 Dally M points to 10

Heck Gower has played about 90 mins of footy in 3 months

and Gas is definately no 5/8th

Forwards have to step up....its our only hope.
 
Gasnier won't play pivot - Meninga
05 July 2006 
By BRAD WALTER and GLENN JACKSON
Sydney Morning Herald

Queensland coach Mal Meninga believes shock NSW five-eighth selection Mark Gasnier will not play in the pivot role "at any stage" of tonight's deciding State of Origin match at Melbourne's Telstra Dome.


Meninga made the stunning prediction yesterday before what had been scheduled to be the Maroons' last training session, but with Bulldogs centre Willie Tonga rushed into camp on stand-by for Josh Hannay the Queenslanders may have another run before kick-off.

Blues coach Graham Murray last night refused to rule out changes to his line-up, with Cronulla back-rower Paul Gallen expected to make his Origin debut in the starting team in place of Newcastle second-rower Steve Simpson, who aggravated a groin injury at training last week.

Gallen ran with the side for much of yesterday's session at the 56,000-capacity stadium, with Simpson joining reserves Ben Hornby, Mark O'Meley, Steve Menzies and 18th man Dean Young as opposition. Significantly, Gasnier spent most of the workout at second receiver and NSW insiders insist he will play in the position he was selected.

However, Hornby filled in at five-eighth as well as halfback and hooker and it is the inclusion of the Dragons utility - chosen in the No.6 jersey for Sunday's match against South Sydney, with Gasnier in the centres - that has caused so much speculation about how the Blues will line up.

Asked whether he thought Hornby was on the NSW bench as insurance for Gasnier, Meninga said: "I don't think Mark Gasnier will play five-eighth at any stage tomorrow night. I think he will have a roving role ? and he will be back at fullback and [Brett] Hodgson in the line."

In the Dragons' most recent match, Gasnier played five-eighth and Hornby fullback - but only when they were down North Queensland's end, with the pair switching in their own half.

AdvertisementAdvertisementWhen Hornby stepped into the five-eighth role at training yesterday, Hodgson remained at fullback and Gasnier drifted around, while he defended outside of centre Matt Cooper.

Exactly who he will line up against won't be known until just before kick-off, with Meninga saying he would be prepared to give Hannay as long as possible to recover from a virus.

Hannay was quarantined from the rest of the team and Tonga put on a plane to Melbourne to replace Cowboys back-rower Matt Scott, who had been 18th man.

Maroons team doctor Roy Saunders rated Hannay's prospects of playing as worse than 50-50, but Meninga said he would leave the final decision to the North Queensland centre.

Blues assistant coach Laurie Daley yesterday told a lunch at Melbourne Town Hall that the NSW camp held greater fears for Tonga, who starred in his first appearance back for the Bulldogs last Sunday after a six-week lay-off with a hamstring injury.

"That makes them stronger," Daley said of Tonga. "He's played for Australia, he's a dynamic player with a ball in his hands. He offers more of a threat with the football. It would make our job harder if he comes into the team."

Meninga said the Maroons were likely to have another training session today for Tonga, who did not play in Origin I or II.

"A couple of years ago, if he wasn't injured, he would have had a mortgage on the centre spot with the ability he's got," Blues captain Danny Buderus said. "He's going to be a definite threat to us."

After being outmuscled by the Maroons at Suncorp Stadium in Origin II, Buderus said the NSW forwards intended to fight fire with fire - raising the possibility of another incendiary Melbourne Origin after the brawling encounters of 1994, 1995 and 1997.

"It's an Origin decider," Buderus said. "It all comes down to this. If you don't get physical and aggressive, you're not going to win."

Meninga acknowledged the Maroons would have most of the support at Telstra Dome, which is a sell-out after NSW officials agreed to transfer the match from Sydney as part of a move to promote the game in Melbourne.

"We need to bring the crowd into the game by playing really well," he said.
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3722303a1823,00.html
 
Originally posted by woosaah@Jul 5 2006, 01:22 PM
Tonight, in melbourne should be an awesome game

on a dry track with no wind (i beleive its under the roof isnt it?)

hopefully queensland can come back and win the series instead of losing for the fourth time in a row. should be a good game.

in my opinion queensland have played the better football for longer. first half of first game they were down 14-0 (i think) and ended up losing 17-16 (right? this is just off the top of my head)

second game totally outplayed new south wales and hopefully can hold them off again.

what are your thoughts? if anyone has thoughts
I'm going.

Woot.
 
Originally posted by Ripper+Jul 5 2006, 05:03 PM-->
<!--QuoteBegin-woosaah
@Jul 5 2006, 01:22 PM
Tonight, in melbourne should be an awesome game

on a dry track with no wind (i beleive its under the roof isnt it?)

hopefully queensland can come back and win the series instead of losing for the fourth time in a row. should be a good game.

in my opinion queensland have played the better football for longer. first half of first game they were down 14-0 (i think) and ended up losing 17-16 (right? this is just off the top of my head)

second game totally outplayed new south wales and hopefully can hold them off again.

what are your thoughts? if anyone has thoughts
I'm going.

Woot. [/b]
Your B'Day present right?

Happy B'day

Also give us a run down of the atmosphere

i havent been to the dome yet.........apparantly at full house u cant hear **** from the person next to you
 
It is weird - there has been hardly any advertising or publicity for this match. Even the newspapers have stuff all coverage.

I can understand having the decider in a neutral location but it will be interesting to see how many people turn up at the Dome tonight.
 
It's a sell-out Big T.

New South Wales have probably got the better side on paper, but we've got heart. It's hard to pick between the two, especially at a neutral venue. Game on.
 
carols try should have counted if that second try to grothe should have counted. what kind of rubbish am i watching? its like i am not watching a fair game.

knock on aginst thurston with bull as well.

its a conspirasy
 
I can't actually believe I'm seeing this. The video referee has taken away all credibility to this Origin series. I'm not being bias here, anyone who knows anything about rugby league will acknowledge this. Joke.
 
i acknowledge it

and i hope ak had mogg for the first try

finally a call goes queenslands way

EDIT

10 minutes to go i think about going to bed, i decide no ill stay up

thurston break from own 40 pass to tate (who i hate) scored great try under post

74 min

NSW stuff pass Lockyer picks up ball and rumbles over line

16-14...... YEAH BABY

5 minutes to go...

COME ON QLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
QUEENSLAND WIN DECIDER

what a finish, they deserve to win by more but yeah what a finish

excellent game excellent series.

State of Origin is still the best IMO
 
That game was a load of ****! It looked like NSW was trying to GIVE the game to QLD in that last 10! I mean what the F#CK was Hodgson thinking? And how was that tackle on Wesser a second effort? pfft! The game was rigged!
 
Haha time to change that sig Sanzar :p

Great series, you gotta love it (unless a Blues supporter I spose)
 
That game just ****** me off... much more than losing to Italy in the WC, because we so should have won it and then just GAVE it to them!
 

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