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Message: [QUOTE="Anonymous person, post: 2433930, member: 2115"] Well they proved me wrong - they COULD play that terrible again. First things first - nsw were the better team. They defended incredibly well, and their ball control was superb. Thaiday must've been giving ball control clinics this last week. Thurston had a shocker. His 5th tackle decisions were poor all night, and it wasn't until cronk took control in the second half that we actually slightly resembled a top level rugby league team. Civoniceva has to go. Apart from 3 or 4 runs he was nothing but a waste of a player and a liability. Drop him. Taylor has got nothing at origin level. Don't know if it's nerves or he's just no good on a big stage, but he was completely MIA for the first 30 mins of the match. Drop him. Gillett is a waste, he's shown again that he is not ready for origin, if he ever will be. Also MIA while on the field. The only positive is that he didn't come charging out of the line and let in any tries. Drop him. Slater looked scared, and was shaky there for a bit, but came back strong and defused a number of attacking raids with excellent catches. Hodges put in his usual origin performance of mediocrity. Useless dummy half shuffle after useless dummy half shuffle. Shillington was very good. Hannant was very good in the second half. Myles was great apart from a mistake or 2. Smith looked lethargic and uninterested yet again. Thought it was illness in the first game, guess it wasn't. Cronk was poor in the first half, but really stepped up in the second half to take control when thurston fell apart. Parker was going well, making inroads up the middle until his injury. Guessing he'll be gone for a decent stretch of time unfortunately. The referees, well we got what we expected - NSW got to do whatever they wanted to. Glen Stewart must've done about 8-9 high shots yet only got done for one. Bird will be nursing a bruised elbow from all the face mashing he was doing with it. Not to mention the referees clearly making a wrong decision in favour of nsw in Jennings hitting the ball out of Tate's hands as he was going to score. How that was a nsw 20m tap I'll never know. Then there was that bomb a few mins later where it looked like uate/Morris hit it forwards yet they said QLD hit it and as such there was no tackle count restart. At this stage, I honestly can't see QLD winning game 3. It sucks, and i haven't felt like this in years, but I think I'm going to go to suncorp and watch nsw raise the shield for the first time in 7 years. QLD just look disinterested, slow, and like they couldn't give a $hit. To even stand a chance, we NEED to make changes. - civoniceva out, McGuire in. - Gillett out, barba in. - Taylor out, Johnson in. Though I'm guessing Parker will be out so just out Johnson in for him and find someone else to replace Taylor Te'o possibly. - slater, if he's out, inglis to fullback and then bring in barba to the wing with Tate to the centers. Even with how poorly we played and how well nsw played, we still probably should've won that. 5 drop outs in the second half. 5. Tate doesn't have that ball knocked out and we win. We hold onto the ball instead of dropping it at every chance and we win. Sigh. That sucked. It was like the early 00's where we just had nothing in attack and nsw just scored easy tries, getting the favourable bounce of the ball every time. The Morris try was BS, though a fair try. Faaaaaaaaaarrrrrrkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk :( [/QUOTE]

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