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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3041847, member: 1899"] [USER=1978]@Dexter[/USER] from now on I'm going to keep my mouth shut until you post because you seem to have a better clue than me. I'd like to pull a Gus Gould and say I qualified my prediction of NSW going on with it in the second half by saying it depends on their attitude, but that's weak. I guess I'm so used to the flow of an NRL game that when I see a side bomb 4 try scoring opportunities it eventually costs them. Not this Queensland side. I forgot that this side is filled with champions with tremendous resolve who never die wondering. Even in defeat, there's rarely an instance I felt they didn't give their all on the field and tonight was another shining example. They had every right to pack it in, play safe and pray for the Blues to make an error, but they fought hard and eventually got on top of them. They just kept at it and kept playing football. It was so refreshing to see a side move the football around like Queensland and even though the service at time was sloppy, when the passes stuck they created enough opportunities where they could eventually convert them. The two passes Kalyn Ponga threw were absolute gems and Munster was desperately unlucky not to receive a better reward when Michael Morgan went close. In Origin it's all about self belief, making the play and staying in the game. At 8-all, NSW had the opportunity to take an unlikely lead with a player short. For all money, it appeared Wighton had set Addo-Carr down the sideline and in that position, Josh scores 9/10 even with the cover coming over. So Gagai took the odds to it, he stuck his hand out reeled the ball in and took his opportunity to score a long distance try he wouldn't be able to score in any other circumstance. Normally Addo-Carr would have been able to chase him down, but in this scenario, Gagai just had too big a lead. Addo-Carr still made the conversion more difficult than it needed to be but that was the turning point. I wish for my nerves I could say it was the game, but it wasn't. Even after Gagai scored his double, NSW came back hard and were within a whisker of stealing it. That final tackle on Crichton is what Origin is built on. Ponga putting his body on the line to temporarily stop the most dangerous player on the field and his team mates covering the other side of the field and just jamming bodies in, that's why we find ourselves writing essays at 12am about this form of entertainment. I'll need to catch a replay before tackling the nitty gritty, but before going through the weeds I just wanted to give it up to the players on the field. They did the jersey proud tonight and that was as good a win I've seen from Queensland. 1-0, off to Perth in a game that may as well be winner takes all. Let's see how NSW handle having the shoe on the other foot, they only lost by four, but they don't take losing well. [/QUOTE]

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