State of Origin ( S.O.S No 3 the decider)

JayDee · Guru

State of Origin ( S.O.S No 3 the decider)

RosieW · Guru

I pray for a win for the Mighty Maroons....

woolman · Guru

If they score more points they should win.

Neil

Hey Jim · Guru

Only the best team will win.

Go the Blues

At lease I get to have some footy food.( All the bad stuff you see) smile smile smile

What happens if they don't come to an agreement on FEE's, with the office. Might be a sit in. confuse confuse confuse confuse

RosieW · Guru

Hey Jim wrote:
At lease I get to have some footy food.( All the bad stuff you see)

Only reason I watch the AFL Grand Final - pizza & corn chips. Used to be beer too, once upon a lifetime ago..........

Goldfinger · Senior Member

I'm a Maroon born and bred, however logic indicates a Blues win....unfortunately by more than a dozen points.....meaning a Blue Series win..the Qld crowd won't be enough to get our gutsy boys over the line this time...the Blues will dominate down the centre & all over the field where it counts......including having the better/superior kicker in Maloney........but.....we'll be backkkkk!...Hoo Roo

-- Edited by Goldfinger on Saturday 8th of July 2017 01:10:30 PM

The Belmont Bear · Guru

Currently sitting here waiting to go to work in sunny Bahrain where it's 35deg. at 6am in the morning and it will no doubt get to the usual 40+ by mid morning. I was discussing only last night with some fellow aussies where we are going to watch the game, luckily it's a 50/50 split here between maroon and blues supporters. At least we will be able to get some alcohol to either celebrate with or drown our sorrows unlike if we happened to be in one or two of the neighbouring countries.

cheers BB

-- Edited by The Belmont Bear on Saturday 8th of July 2017 01:04:58 PM

DMaxer · Guru

I hope you are right Goldfinger. I don't have any confidence after game two and our half back.

macka17 · Guru

They entitled to a couple.
Just to keep them interested.

Once our young ones grow up.
Like theirs have. We'll be back to the old
regular whitewashes again.

Jeez..
It's NSW..
What are they any good for anyway.

Not even Australia...

The fact that we thrash them regularly over the decades.
with the number of choices they have.
to the tiny number we have.
Tells you something.

One Q'Lander is on average equal to around 10 NSW
... men???. Koff koff.

Back to the lounge room.
Stocking up on Chockies.

DMaxer · Guru

I have spent a fair bit of time in Qld Macka. I recall when I spent two years in Brisbane the locals disliked everyone south of the Tweed. When I spent a couple of years in Townsville, the locals were mainly blow ins but still mistrusted everyone south of Rocky and north of Innisfail.

The one thing they all had in common was that to be a Queenslander you had to be born there.

macka17 · Guru

Yea D-Max.

and Brisbane ain't even IN Queensland.

The Border just slipped down a bit.
Should be in Gladdy hey.

I spent a lot of my time here, based in Townsville

Rocky was the line. As it should be.
But there again. I spent a few yrs in SA when first arriving too.
Till I saw the light.
True Q'Landers are born there.

Same as Geordies, in UK. We're A breed aside. (the cream)
But. realistically.
Anybody that's lived\worked here for over 20 yrs can be called one.

As long as they not from NSW.

The Belmont Bear · Guru

Like you Dmaxer there is nothing like being lectured by a blow in Queenslander they seem to be even sillier than the real ones biggrin biggrin biggrin

DMaxer · Guru

I agree BB. I was in Brisbane for the Royal Commission in the late eighties. I was approached by these three clowns one night and told in no uncertain terms that Qld did not need "southerners" coming up there interfering in their business. These three clowns had arrived from New Zealand two months before.

Ron-D · Guru

DMaxer wrote:
I have spent a fair bit of time in Qld Macka. I recall when I spent two years in Brisbane the locals disliked everyone south of the Tweed. When I spent a couple of years in Townsville, the locals were mainly blow ins but still mistrusted everyone south of Rocky and north of Innisfail.
The one thing they all had in common was that to be a Queenslander you had to be born there.

Your right DMaxer that statement you have to be born there is so dumb and corny ...

DMaxer · Guru

Yes Ron. I just think of people either as fellow Aussies or visitors. It seems that the only ones that carry on with that are the blow ins with no sense of identity. Qld, like the rest of Australia is a great place. If it was as fabulous as the blow ins make out, then why are so many Qld born people living in the other states?

Goldfinger · Senior Member

.we live elsewhere Dmaxer,...because many of us marry girls from t'other States,...so many in Nth Qld are Pauline Hanson look alikes....and sound like our 'famous' Qld Bar girls...eat an apple through a whicker chair..!....instant soft-ons'....many would do us proud as front rowers for our Maroons....not that I have anything against them, or always tried not to, unless Bundy liquormortis had set in..........this should bring a response...lmao.....lol.....as he ducks for cover.....Hoo Roo

-- Edited by Goldfinger on Tuesday 11th of July 2017 12:07:34 PM

Des and Jane · Senior Member

Ya know the more I read and see about the State of Origin the more I see match fixing to fill the stadium for the 3 games.
Seems to happen every year...can;t remember when it was 2 - 0 and the third game was not played.

Blues Man · Guru

Go the mighty MAROONS. heeeeeeeee haaaaaaaaaa.

macka17 · Guru

Well.

We all Aussies. and all love footy.
Coming out second half.
4 balls over. 2 collected points.
Let's see what happens second time round hey.

GRRRRREAT GAME>
WHOEVER WINS>

Dougwe · Chief one feather

QLD

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Cupie · Guru

Des and Jane wrote:
Ya know the more I read and see about the State of Origin the more I see match fixing to fill the stadium for the 3 games.
Seems to happen every year...can;t remember when it was 2 - 0 and the third game was not played.

I suppose that we are all entitled to an opinion.

Here's mine ...

I think that once again NSW players seem to believe their own bull **** & 'clearly the best team' lost out once again to a real TEAM.

The only thing that worries me is that a lot of the NSW players will be in the Aus team. Perhaps Mal will sort them out.

A fantastic game that I enjoyed ... with the sound turned off so that I didn't have to listen to the commentators' rubbish.

BTW .. Have you noticed how much like Trump Gus Gould is .. both in appearance & the rubbish that spews from his gob.

QUEENSLANDER

BTW2 ... Just listened to the Qld Team song. I reckon that it comes from the old Ipswich football song that we used to sing in the schoolboys Rep side days.

-- Edited by Cupie on Wednesday 12th of July 2017 10:23:00 PM

The Belmont Bear · Guru

Congratulations Qld but the blues didn't lose the series tonight they lost it in game 2 when they played one of the dumbest halves of football I have seen in a SOO. The chances of winning the decider in Brisbane was always going to be extremely difficult so as usual we found a way to throw away another series. One day NSW will learn that in SOO it doesn't matter who has the best players it is the team who plays with the most passion that decides the winner and more often than not we are running second.

One consolation for me is that the only Newcastle Knight in the game won the player of the series - well done Dane Gagai.

macka17 · Guru

ONE WORD.

QUEENSLAND..... Blow-in or otherwise..

Brilliant little fella hey. That Gagai..

Magic game.
NSW Played same team all series. As we usually do.

Retirements. Injuries, and retirements.
We played a mixed team. Different for all games.
Trying out the Juniors. Oldies and regulars as suited.

And they still don't get it.

PLAY TOGETHER... With the one will.

and you MAY come close..

It's something called a Togetherness..... A team.

get your best,"Proven" players Together. Dump the dirty ones.
Tedesco, and a coupla others.
and learn to play as a TEAM.
Then we'll have some great series. Evenly matched, forever.
Swinging points back and forth.

Until then.

Go Queensland.. THE BEST.
Even when trying out new players for the future.

Blues Man · Guru

What a great game last nite . They are all worriers ,just some worriers are better than others. biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin

Go Queensland.

Ron-D · Guru

I used to support the blues until last night there bloody hopeless...

DMaxer · Guru

I saw this one coming after the debacle in Game Two. However, you can't take anything away from Queensland. They are just too good.

I recall cricket teams like the West Indies during the late seventies through to early nineties, they were too good for everyone. Our cricket team held that mantle for a few years after that, they were too good for the opposition.

What galls me about the NSW team is the selection process. They pick the players and then work out what position they will play. We have full backs in the centres just so they can be part of the team. If positions were not specialised then we pick thirteen players and tell them to stand anywhere, have no positional description and go your hardest. NSW has this history of picking back rowers as props, centres as wingers, fullbacks as centres all so the old mates can get a game.

Watching my favourite team(s) cop a flogging is nothing new. In some ways it is pretty funny. What does irritate me however, is when a particular team wins then all the wannabes that jump on thinking that because they live in that area or state have all of a sudden had their own individual status elevated skywards just because a team has won.

Anyway, it can't get any worse, or not until our cricket team starts again.

brickies · Guru

You can see why so many southern's head to Queensland at this time of the year , They want to be in the winning state and join the celebrations .

Cupie · Guru

DMaxer wrote:
What does irritate me however, is when a particular team wins then all the wannabes that jump on thinking that because they live in that area or state have all of a sudden had their own individual status elevated skywards just because a team has won.
Snip

It's called celebrating that your team has won against the odds..... and perhaps a little tribalism & some of the reflected glory.

Maybe some of the NSW supporters have forgotten the feeling. .. as we did in all those pre SOO years where NSW got so bored with winning every year that they (or at least the southern media) wanted to abandon the interstate games in favour of the Sydney local competition.

As the saying goes ... Winners can laugh & losers can please themselves ... or something like that.

Don't worry, the wheel will turn.

QUEENSLANDER!!!

DMaxer · Guru

I recall working in Queensland in the nineties when NSW were dominant. The Queensland press then thought that Origin had passed its use by date. When they started winning again it became the biggest show in town.

I recall being there in the late eighties when the Broncos first entered the competition. The television stations were so paranoid that the southern commentators might disparage their champions that they sent their own commentators to cover the NSW venues. I recall listening to one coverage when the Broncos were playing North Sydney and North Sydney scored a try. There was a prolonged silence until the commentators discovered that the try scorer was Les Kiss, a Queenslander. All of a sudden this hysterical voice came out of the television "It's OK, that's Les Kiss, he is one of us, its just like us scoring a try" Unfortunately, the super Broncos crashed and burned in their first year despite having Wally, Miles, Dowling, Conescu just to name a few. That was put down to unfair refereeing by the local scribes.

They were the better team for two of the matches and deserved to win. Simple as that. It doesn't make me feel a lesser person, I had no control over it.

brickies · Guru

DMaxer if you want to experience Queensland NRL HIP Visit Townsville around Sate of Origin .