2015 State of Origin: Queensland wins Game 1 11-10 [HIGHLIGHTS]

just his face really i don't pay much attention to what he does just watch in hope that someone puts a big hit on him.

Hodges - 8 Slater - 7 Robbie Farrah - 4 Klemmer - 5 Fifita - 4

How can you not LOVE Hodgo? Vintage performance last night. Spectacular.

I wonder if every sinew came together in one perfect whole for Cronks field goal last night.

never said he wasnt i just can't stand him so didn't even want to attempt to rate him, now realising he is in the bad column that was more my bias rather than his performance

Go the blues

NSW was very lucky to only lose by 1 point as the maroons dominated the second half. Apart from duggan none of the NSW players played that well

Hodges was one of our best lol

Where were the halves? Well primarily not getting the ball because neither forwards or backs seemed capable of holding onto the bloody thing.

My player rating out of 10 QLD Billy Slater - 6 Darius Boyd - 4 Justin Hodges - 6 Greg Inglis - 5 Will Chambers - 7 Johnathan Thurston - 5 Cooper Cronk - 8 Matt Scott - 7 Cam Smith - 8 Nate Myles - 6 Aiden Guerra - 6 Sam Thaiday - 7 Cory Parker - 7 ----- Micheal Morgan - 4 Matt Gillet - 4 Josh Maguire - 6 Jacob Lillyman - 5 NSW Josh Dugan - 7 Daniel Toupou - 4 Micheal Jennings - 4 Josh Morris - 7 Will Hopoate - 5 Mitchell Pearce - 6 Trent Hodkinson - 4 James Tamou - 7 Robbie Farah - 7 Aaron Woods - 8 Beau Scott - 7 Ryan Hoffman - 6 Josh Jackson - 5 ---- Trent Merrin - 5 David Klemmer - 6 Andrew Fifita - 6 Boyd Cordner - 5

Pearce, once again shows how overrated he is, such a poor kicking game . NSW lacked structure and leadership at crucial times. I bet Laurie picks Pearce again. As Einstein stated "the definition of insanity is repeating the same mistake and expecting a different outcome " The refs didn't police the ruck and lenient with their interpretation of the 10 . -- Comment from The Roar's iPhone app.

NSW, the good... (NSW fan) Tamou - insane first half Scott - good game overall Woods - insane first half Dugan - exactly what was needed Klemmer's early second half Morris - always delivers the goods the meh... Pearce - good first half, that ball to find scott was terrific, absent second half Hopoate - should never have been picked hasn't had any real sort of form for parra tupou - good, needs to be better jennings - ok, needs better ball, should have at least put a hit of some sort on chambers merrin - didn't notice him tbh cordner - lack of significant output hoffman - not sure what happened seemed to be lacking something the bad Farah - no dynamism from dummy half, maybe the shoulder was worse than it looked, didn't seem to provide any sort of leadership hodkinson - he kicked a conversion .... not much else jackson - good tackle, on the line otherwise didn't offer anything certainly shouldn't have started ahead of merrin who's played a terrific season with the dragons fifita - was poor, not much else to say. changes ... Austin for hodkinson, his game against the dogs was terrific and his running game and defence are first class a. reynolds for pearce, although I'm not sure when he's back, will need game time at souths first. gallen to start at lock for jackson, provides leadership someone to replace hopoate either moylan, johnston or richards alternatively move morris to the wing, croker into the centres would allow an austin/pearce combo croker in somewhere ?? QLD, the good (won't do all can't be bothered tbh) Slater - terrific game, the dive onto morris' back was pointless and stupid cronk - what else do you expect smith - see above chambers - good try, solid defence on the whole Bench forwards - much better than NSW's equivalent the ok/meh Thurston - didn't seem as influential as he normally is starting pack except for myles (didn't pay much attention to them, thaiday didn't seem to make as many line breaks as he normally does) the bad myles - poor game, haven't seen many titans matches but from what I've heard his form has been down this season inglis - poor from his standards, injured? might still be sick from the weekend Boyd - he can't do much if inglis isn't playing well... Hodges - i can't even pretend to be slightly impartial, his faeces eating grin is soooooooo punchable. changes, if they could leave out cronk, smith, slater and thurston and play with 9 on the field that would be fantastic. *my bias is declared on the first line*

Agreed, foxsports gave pearce a 7! He was nowhere in second half, a typical origin performance from him. I will say though that the NSW go forward wasnt there too which made it hard but the two bombed field goal chances summed up why pearce is no general.

Were you watching a different game? Queensland should have been pinged many times for being inside the 10, billy slater perpetually in front of the kicker. the Slater try was a 50-50 call. Not arguing the result though, NSW didn't deserve to win.

Agree that Chambers was good and would have been close to MoM same as Cronk. Smith did a lot of tackling and organizing though and I thought his tackle on Pearce in the first half was a try save as well as his charge on Dugan might have saved a drop goal, and also nearly got a try so agree with his MoM.

Absolutely correct. When the forwards slacken off, you expect the halves or the captain to start geeing them up and driving them forward again. Neither Pearce, nor Hodko nor Farah do this. They don't do it for their clubs and they don't do it for their state. As a result, the forwards go nowhere and NSW will likely lose yet another origin series.

Daley has,already guaranteed that these halves will start the next game

Agree that the bench did not have the impact I thought they would. QLD bench matched them. Tamou had his best origin game. Jackson was very quiet.

Come of it, NSW got favoured by the refs, that very first try to Slater should of been awarded. And NSW were inside the ten all night, but the refs managed to pick two back-to-back for the blues.

He was MOTM for mine.