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Message: [QUOTE="The Fisherman, post: 3189718, member: 11513"] Cult3, I personally think the Broncos culture was built on the early origin series where as you have rightly pointed out NSW hated us, Bennett came into the role of coach of the Broncos still surfing the wave of Queenslands early origin success. Origin was born out of the arrogance of NSW treating us like second rate citizens , I can remember as young bloke reading things about NSW not wanting to bother playing the interstate series because club football was way more important to them, people were not interested in turning up to the matches played in Sydney, so the arseholes scheduled the games to be played in places like Bathurst where small crowds turned up. When the games were played in Queensland even though we new we would get a flogging, people still turned up to support the Queensland side. When Barry Muir took over as coach, he instilled a lot of belief into the Queensland players and more respectable score lines followed. Barry Muir played for and also captained Queensland and Australia, he was a very skillful player and a referees nightmare. Below is a bit of info pasted from Wikipedia about Barry Muir and helps a bit to understand why we hate NSW. [HEADING=1]Legacy[[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barry_Muir&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro']edit[/URL]][/HEADING] Muir was a long time outspoken critic of the system that allowed the best Queensland club players to move to the Sydney competition and then to represent New South Wales. This widely held sentiment eventually led to the birth of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_League_State_of_Origin']Rugby League State of Origin[/URL] concept. Muir coached the Queensland side from 1974 to 1978 (two years prior to the adoption of Origin selection criteria) and during this time Muir coined the term "cockroaches", the derogatory descriptor of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_Wales_rugby_league_team']New South Wales rugby league team[/URL] still used by the Queenslanders.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Muir#cite_note-3'][3][/URL] In February 2008, Muir was named in the list of Australia's [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_rugby_league%27s_100_greatest_players'][I]100 Greatest Players[/I][/URL] (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rugby_League']NRL[/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Rugby_League']ARL[/URL] to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Muir#cite_note-4'][4][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Muir#cite_note-5'][5][/URL] [/QUOTE]

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