New South Wales Blues’ greatest ever Origin strips
BY STAFF WRITERS New South Welshmen across the state spat out their corn flakes last year when the NSWRL announced the Blues would be wearing a navy blue ‘alternate’ strip … Read More
Tag: State of Origin
Maroons coach Kevin Walters willing to play entire State of Origin series in Sydney
Queensland State of Origin coach Kevin Walters is willing to play all three series games in Sydney if that meant the the games could go ahead. “I’m like everybody else … Read More
Boyd Cordner floats idea of extending State of Origin to five or seven game series
Australian and New South Wales captain Boyd Cordner has put forward an audacious idea if the NRL season can’t be started by the September deadline. The three-time premiership-winner has floated … Read More
Daley wanted to continue infamous 1988 State of Origin brawl in the Lang Park tunnel
BY STAFF WRITERS Former New South Wales Blues enforcer Phil Daley has lifted the lid on the infamous 1988 State of Origin brawl at Lang Park which sparked the frenzied … Read More
Andrew Johns wants State of Origin to go ahead even if NRL season is shut down
Rugby league Immortal Andrew Johns has floated the idea of going ahead with State of Origin this year even if the NRL season is shut down. Speaking on Channel Nine’s … Read More
Forget State of Origin, time to create ‘something special’ at Knights: Pearce
Forget State of Origin, it’s all about Newcastle now. That’s the message from star halfback Mitchell Pearce who now has the job of steering the Knights to their first finals … Read More
The Maroons summoned all their Queensland spirit but a Blues dynasty has officially begun
BY CURTIS WOODWARD @woodward_curtis How many times during Queensland’s epic dynasty did they steal a game from New South Wales? The Blues were never that far behind but they just … Read More
Johnathan Thurston wants Maroons to open ‘scars’ on ‘whipping boy’ Pearce
Retired Queensland legend Johnathan Thurston wants the Maroons to rip open Mitchell Pearce’s old State of Origin wounds in tonight’s series decider at Homebush. “He’s been the whipping boy for … Read More
Queensland a weaker team with Cameron Munster at fullback: Johns
New South Wales’ greatest ever halfback and Blues assistant Andrew Johns believes the old Sydney Roosters combination of Mitchell Pearce and James Maloney could be the difference tonight in the … Read More
‘An unknown’: Fittler says advantage-NSW as Norman and Welch to make Origin debuts
New South Wales Blues coach Brad Fittler believes that the Blues losing Game I was the ‘worst thing for Queensland’ with NSW hitting back with a vengeance in Perth to … Read More