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Like many who read and contribute to this website, I am not always a fan of former Blues’ coach Phil Gould and some of his opinions that come to us via the Nine television network.
But I whole-heartedly agree with Gus after catching his analysis of the NSW Origin team and how it should attack Queensland in next Wednesday’s opener at Suncorp Stadium.
I came across a recorded segment on the Sydney Morning Herald website featuring Gould and sports journalist Andrew Webster.
It made heaps of sense to me.
After discussing the whys and wherefores of the new Blues’ halves combination, Gould went on to say what he would be doing if he were coaching NSW in Game 1 of this much-anticipated series.
“I think Jarryd Hayne is our best chance of winning,” Gould said.
“I would be throwing all of my eggs in the Jarryd Hayne basket.
“I’d be sitting down with the other three playmakers (Trent Hodkinson, Josh Reynolds and Robbie Farah) and working out where can we inject this bloke, where he will be most useful, how does he want the ball?”
Hayne has been an absolute standout for the rejuvenated Parramatta Eels this season. He has been a match-winner, a points instigator and an all-round inspiration.
He has done some very freakish things, pulling off amazing plays that only the very special players are capable of in rugby league. NSW would be mad not to ride on the coat-tails of his five-star form.
Hayne is back to what made him the best player in the code in 2009. That year he won six consecutive man-of-the-match awards as Parra made a late charge for the finals.
The ‘Hayne Plane’ was pretty much unstoppable during that incredible sequence. He looks to be in an identical zone as he revs up for Origin 1.
Queensland has a number of players capable of being spontaneous, brilliant, spectacular and singularly important to the outcome of this game. NSW has just one: J Hayne.
If you have a Ferrari in your garage, why go for drives in your VWs, Holdens and those Jeeps (that someone bought on some annoying TV commercial)?
I say Gould makes lots of sense in his appeal for Blues coach Laurie Daley to fashion his game plan around an in-form Blue who is a natural match-winner.
NSW only has a limited time to work on its game plan whereas the Maroons already know theirs – they’ve been employing and tweaking it successfully for eight years.
I’d love to see something different from this new-look Blues outfit.
Set the platform through the forwards and give the Ferrari every opportunity to click into top gear and purr.
To me, Jarryd Hayne is our John Thurston, Cooper Cronk, Bill Slater, Greg Inglis and Cam Smith all rolled into one.
No, he is not superman, but we have all seen him fly before.
It will have to be a mighty team effort to manufacture enough opportunities for this fullback Ferrari but Hayne, in his present mood, is capable of anything.
Even stopping arguably the best rugby league combination ever assembled.
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