Gaznia had a "mare".....

The anthem was excellent.

Poor old Blues fans. Enjoy your day.

Yeah it was a poor game.

lol

That will do me.

lol

Nothing here about Tonga?

He did his shoulder in the 16th minute and played out the entire game with a stuffed shoulder.

Mal Meninga was at great pains at the press conference to emphasise Tonga's role and his courage. I tend to agree with him. I'll forgive him for not passing when a try was on, even though it was before the injury.

lol

that anthem sucked

i thought it was god save the queen for a bit

Does anyone ever post there anymore since Harrigan killed it?

Every origin can't be a classic, but hey it was still was a good game

But still who wouldnt love 50,000+ crowd, 10 days of wall to wall media in all mainstream forms and TV ratings through the roof in this nation. Amazing product.

Still have a massive gripe about sky's pre game, absolutely kills any hype of the game and leaves me feeling really flat. Also shows Jon Wells lack of knowledge of the NRL.

I refuse to watch anything that has Brian Carney presenting it. I recorded the game and fast forwarded the bits with him in it.

Good to see Bomber McCrae is back to health again though.


LOL @ the stupid people who are still voting on the result the day after the game finished. Thats 7 more votes for Queensland since this morning

I read something earlier about the quality of these origin players being of less quality than that of the early nineties and i disagree. I think it is on par of that of the early nineties teams and is gaining in both strength and depth. Back then you had Langer, Stuart, Daley and Fittler at halfback. Now they have Thurston, Lockyer and Soward who are definately comparable. Cam Smith is as good as Steve Walters was. Slater, Hayne and Dugan are better than Brasher, Mullins and Shearer. Inglis, Jennings, Gasnier, Boyd, Uate, Morris et al are as good if not in some instances better as the outside backs of the nineties. And the old English fallacy of the Aussie pack being poor is rubbish as the likes of M Scott,Thaiday, Civonaceva, Gallen looked good with plenty of good young forwards coming through. I first started watching Origin in the 90s and i like to romantasise about that era. But what impressed me yesterday was the quality across the board with plenty players injured or not even picked. I think the Aussies are still producing quality and quantity just as in that decade.

Carney is now the best pundit/presenter that sky have for rugby league. Well spoken, presents the game without bias or repetitive stupidity (stevo).

That said, sack them off or just let Carney bring in the coverage to hand over to 9. Wells has had a shocker when ever he has had his 10 seconds having to go to his clip board, getting names wrong or calling the Thurston on Uate strip a poor carry.

Not really, since you and Katie got banned it's been pretty quite.

Carney well spoken????!!!!!







He sounds like an extra off Father Ted. I expect him to say 'Down with this sort of thing' or 'Careful now' at any second.

The funniest things, Ennis' attempt at a pass with a 3 man overlap, Gasnier's hit by Boyd x2 and Gallen's inability to read a very simple inside pass that Nosterdamus would have seen coming.

The sycophantic commentary of Gould and Warren ruined it for me - the RL guys in Australia are so insecure. Origin is a great concept but if you listened to these guys you would think it was bigger than NFL, Champions League, NBA combined!! talked about over-hyped.

40m Americans watching a game they have never heard of - some people need a reality check - only 3m Aussies watched it.

Agreed, when was the last good anthem? I heard the FA Cup Final one and it sounded like a karaoke singer.



I like Carney too, think Carney, Wells and Cullen are the best three on SKY now.

Carney and Wells - Cullen just quotes catch phrases from an Aussie coaching manual.

I don't mind him, at least there's someone who actually looks at a part of the game other than players scoring, that's all we ever seem to see highlights of other than when Cullens on.

you'll be burnt at the stake if you keep that up.......and whatever you do, don't compare it with the TV audience for the Boat Race

Isn't it their job to hype it up?

Agree like carney and wells but Cullen is full of buzz words."the brains trust", "landing tackle" etc...

You'll be burnt at the stake if you keep that up.

Other sports 'big themselves up" and it's called spin, RL does it and it's perfectly OK


40,000,000 YANKS......

Spin, hype, whatever. It is their job to promote the sport. They do it wonderfully. Would you rather they said it was a pile of steaming turd and that nobody should bother watching?

No I wouldn't.
I repeat......it's OK when League does it....but all other sports lie






Seriously......40,000,000 American viewers......Australian League fans have to bethe most insular and insecure bunch on the planet

No one said 40m people watched it.

Unlike YawnYawn who still like to talk about "4 billion".

The Origin was the most watched program on Australian TV so far this year. That's a fact. YawnYawn would love half that for any of their Stupid 15 bore-a-thons. That's if they could even get them shown on free to air TV - which they can't.

Anyone who slags off Origin is just jealous. Either jealous yawnyawn trolls or jealous poms who know they have nothing that compares. Oh sorry, they do have "Origin" this year. And what an event that will be! England v the Old Mercenaries XIII.

Spot on ect