Posts Tagged "NSW Blues"

For the sixth time in NRL State of Origin history, the canetoads and cockroaches will clash in Melbourne, this time in game one of the series.

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NSW wicketkeeper-batsman Brad Haddin’s future in the Australian Test team looks bleak after he made his second duck in the Sheffield Shield clash with Western Australia on Sunday.

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Over the years many have suggested that when NSW hands out the Baggy Blue they also hand over a Baggy Green to save time later. David Hookes, for one, famously expressed this view.

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On the final day of their Sheffield Shield fixture, the Queensland Bulls secured their fourth straight win, seeing off a defiant middle order resistance from the NSW Blues in the second innings at the Gabba.

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NSW wicketkeeper Daniel Smith produced the record-setting innings of his life to trump a Brad Hodge-inspired Victoria in the one-day cricket match at North Sydney Oval on Sunday.

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Spring is well and truly among us. The days are longer, the weather is warmer, and a sporting fan’s thoughts turn to cricket. In Sydney, there’s no better place for a season opener than North Sydney Oval.

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NSW crashed to a seven wicket loss to the Cape Cobras in their opening Champions League Twenty20 cricket match in Chennai, India on Saturday.

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At the beginning of the year, I made five fearless predictions for the 2011 NRL season. Before we discuss this weekend’s finals, it’s time to review those predictions and determine whether I have egg all over my face, or whether I can be labelled a rugby league Nostradamus.

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Mal Meninga’s stunning rant against NSW powerbrokers and the NRL match review committee (MRC) is set for the courts after defamation proceedings were issued against the Queensland State of Origin coach.

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Queensland State of Origin coach Mal Meninga has declined to comment on reports the NRL match review committee has given him 48 hours to apologise for accusing them of being part of a conspiracy to stop his champion Maroons winning a record sixth consecutive series.

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NSW State of Origin coach Ricky Stuart held his first planning meeting ahead of the 2012 series on Wednesday – dousing speculation he was poised to dump the Blues in favour of a return to the NRL.

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Queensland captain-in-waiting Cameron Smith claims Maroons’ State of Origin coach Mal Meninga had every right to retaliate following attempts to downplay his influence in the side’s six straight series wins.

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NSW State of Origin coach Ricky Stuart has refused to buy into Mal Meninga’s stunning attack on rugby league officialdom despite suggestions some of the Queensland coach’s vitriol was aimed at him.

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We all know what happened in the 2011 State of Origin series. So how’s this for a New South Wales Origin team for 2012?

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Thank goodness it is over, I said to myself last Thursday. The super-hyped State of Origin rugby league series was over. But is it? The Maroons coach Mal Meninga is trying to keep the embers burning with tasteless remarks on tasteless remarks.

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Ricky Stuart’s radical plan of playing just two specialist props in this year’s State of Origin series won’t be a passing fad, say the NSW backrowers who picked up the slack for their side.

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The talk coming into Origin III was how Ricky Stuart had unlocked the secret of new rugby league. No more props, it was going to be Dutch total football forward packs with a slew of back rowers capable of offloads and wearing down the opposing big guys with angled runs.

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As expected, NSW was roundly and loudly booed by the 52,498 Suncorp crowd when they took the field first on Wednesday night for the Origin decider. But class act Mark Gasnier had the right idea.

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And so rugby league’s grand showcase is over for another year, with the Queensland Maroons defeating the NSW Blues in the deciding game of the State of Origin series for 2011.

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Icons Wally Lewis and Darren Lockyer bowed out of Origin football 20 years apart. Lewis at Lang Park in 1991, captaining Queensland to win the decider 14-12. Lockyer last night at Suncorp, the re-named Lang Park, leading Queensland to win the decider 34-24.

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