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It must have been the most public game plan in the history of Origin football from the NSW Blues last night. “Gentlemen, we must fortify ourselves and use the appropriate measure of physical aggression to stop Gregory Inglis”….or words to that effect.
What a pity everyone bailed after that because perhaps Andrew Johns might have actually enlightened NSW as to how the hell that what was going to happen.
Flying up into the defensive line and waving your hands in the air like you are trying to be spotted by a helicopter probably isn’t the best way to go.
Johns has proved a number of things this week, but the latest was talk is cheap.
As I spoke with my brother prior to kick-off he made one telling observation. Inglis would be the most motivated man in the 30 year history of this state rivalry.
It then took just three minutes for the man mountain to steamroll over the line.
I cursed myself from not supporting Anthony Mundine’s call for a boycott of the match. Ah, once a New South Welshman always a New South Welshman, Choc clearly felt the best hope for the Blues was if Queensland were forced to select strike breakers for the match in Brisbane.
As it stands we’ve got Buckley’s of knocking over this mob.
All change for the Blues? Bugger that, it will largely prove academic anyway so I say leave the side as is and let them fight (perhaps an odd choice of word) their way back into the contest.
Stability might also bring cohesiveness which is a commodity the Blues aren’t burdened with at present.
The other thing for NSW fans to factor is that the selectors seem obsessed with picking blokes from Newcastle and Canberra at present, so we have perhaps the best ever Maroons side against the off-cuts of the Knights and Raiders.
If my numbers are right the next blokes in line for a call up are Joe Picker, Glen Buttriss, Dan Tolar and Scott Dureau.
At the end of the match I had to sit back and smile. As kids, my brothers and I would cry ourselves to sleep cursing Wally Lewis if the Maroons got a victory. But this team is so good that as a league fan you can’t help but enjoy watching them play.
Full credit; this is indeed the golden generation for Queensland.
There was one other bonus for NSW fans, a Lang Park packed to the rafters and not a single vuvuzela within a bull’s roar.
You have to take what you can get.
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