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BY CURTIS WOODWARD

@woodward_curtis

So the Queenslanders are throwing stones – all over an image of a triumphant New South Wales five-eigth Jarome Luai standing above a defeated Felise Kaufusi despite the fact they were embarrassed in Townsville by the slick Blues 50-6.

This is Origin.

Right now, Luai is king.

Kaufusi is nothing but a fallen soldier for a withering empire desperately sucking on the fumes of their once mighty era.

Yes, the Maroons won the unthinkable last year but all that did was make the Blues stronger.

Game II is everything.

The Blues have the foot on the throat.

Queensland knows it.

7News Brisbane on Wednesday night started by calling Luai a “villain”.

Barely.

Simply putting out the trash like a good lad from Mount Druitt would.

“Yeah, yeah it’s popped a bit since Game I,” Maroons captain Daly Cherry-Evans confirmed to the station about the image.

Channel 7 reported that Maroons players had shared the image around camp.

“It is motivation for Game Two – you never want to see a brother on the ground like that,” Maroons big man Tino Fa’asuamaleaui added.

The Maroons are looking for anything right now.

They are in trouble.

Forget Johnathan Thurston abusing Mitchell Pearce a few years ago in the in-goal at Suncorp Stadium after yet another Queensland win.

What the Blues need to be reminded about is what the Queenslanders did while wearing the Australian jersey almost ten years ago after a Kangaroos win which included NSW players.

With the Maroons at the peak of their powers, Australia beat the Kiwis 18-10 at Dairy Farmers Stadium. QLD boasting the majority of the team, started singing the QLD team song on-field while arm-in-arm with their NSW teammates.

Channel Nine cameras showed the Kangaroos surrounding themselves around the trophy they had just won.

The Maroons decided to belt out some ‘aye aye yippee yippee aye’.

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Paul Gallen landed back in Sydney and was bemused.

Tommy Raudonikis at the time called it “a disgrace”.

The Maroons can try to find whatever they can to dig themselves from the grave they’re in.

But the people of New South Wales will never get ‘aye aye yippee’ out of their heads.

@woodward_curtis