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    This is shaping up to be an interesting game.
    Looking forward to it
    This year will be BLUE Go NSW!

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    Taylor should'v been picked before in the original 17 , well done & well deserved..
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    We are gonna get drilled. Too many injuries.

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    As a NSW fan, it's obvious that Inglis, and DCE will play...it's a tactic by QLD to make themselves the underdogs as if it was 2006 all over again.

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    We dont stand a chance, NSW should flog us by 20
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    Quote Originally Posted by Coaster View Post
    We dont stand a chance, NSW should flog us by 20
    Under Dog!!!!
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    I can see QLD throwing a lot at NSW but it will be very close, though. NSW 14-QLD 8

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    happy DT got the call up but fearing the worst for the storm game this monday. oh well at least its only two days between our game and origin 2.

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    I dare say DT will be looking out to make amends this time round.

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    Hoping for BIG things from DT this time around. He would have been the difference in game 1 IMO.

    Gonna miss him for Storm game though. Might put him down for a double in Origin instead!
    That would pay nicely. ;-)

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    Coal Train must overcome past Maroon failures

    TRAVIS MEYN GOLD COAST BULLETIN JUNE 12, 2014 12:00AM
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    QUEENSLAND coach Mal Meninga has slammed recalled forward Dave Taylor’s Origin career as a failure and challenged the enigmatic “Coal Train” to deliver in league’s toughest arena.

    Taylor was yesterday called into Camp Maroon at Sanctuary Cove as Queensland’s injury crisis deepened with workhorse lock Corey Parker ruled out because of a fractured eye socket.

    Meninga has 21 players in camp and is sweating on the fitness of key trio Billy *Slater (shoulder), Greg Inglis (ankle) and Daly Cherry-Evans (knee).

    Queensland must win Game Two at ANZ Stadium on Wednesday to keep the series alive and Meninga is set to roll the dice on Taylor.

    Taylor played his sixth and last Origin in the corresponding game of 2012 before being dropped for the decider.

    The 120kg wrecking ball has been in sensational form for the Titans this year but couldn’t earn Queensland selection until Parker and Josh Papalii (ankle) were ruled out.

    Taylor’s Origin papers were thought to be stamped “never to play again” because of his unpredictability and Meninga said he expected more from the 25-year-old *forward in a game Queensland must win to keep their dreams of a ninth consecutive *series victory alive.

    “Well, He hasn’t done a job for us in the past, to be honest with you,” Meninga said.

    “We’re expecting a bit more out of Dave.

    “He’s been playing really good football for his club and gets a bit of a second sniff. Hopefully he’s going to grab it.”

    Meninga said Taylor had shown he was mentally ready to end his Origin exile.

    Taylor, who is averaging 138m a game for the Titans this year and is playing big minutes (64), said he was *excited to be back in the fold.

    “It’s been a bit disappointing the last couple of years missing out and it’s good to be back in the squad with all the boys,” Taylor said.

    “I just stayed away from everything (media) I guess and concentrated on having fun for my club.

    “I said at the start of the year I wanted to knuckle down and have fun with the club and the representative stuff would take care of itself and now here I am.”

    As well as enjoying his football, Taylor has benefited from simplifying his game.

    “His effort starting and effort with the ball has been tremendous,” Meninga said.

    “He’s hard to handle, scoring tries, offloading. Defensively he’s been much better as well. He’s fit, healthy and his mind’s right. He’s making a great contribution to the *Titans side.”

    What has stopped Taylor from earning an Origin recall is his sometimes erratic play. He has made 19 errors in 12 NRL *appearances this season and can undo good work as quickly as he produces it.

    Taylor’s co-captain at the Gold Coast, Nate Myles, said the second-rower had overhauled his approach to the game.

    “He couldn’t have done any more,” Myles said. “The best thing about Dave is what everyone doesn’t see. How he is at training. He’s a lot better now. That’s probably the only area he really had to improve, his training and application.

    “He’s doing that now and starting to feel the benefits of it. Training is where it’s starting for him and it’s slowly translating into his form on the field.”
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    NSW v Queensland Game Two preview
    By Dan Walsh
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    7:00pm Wed 11th June, 2014


    New South Wales v Queensland
    ANZ Stadium
    Wednesday, 8.05pm

    The table is set, the entree's been served, and it's now time for the main course.

    With fears the 100th Origin contest might not live up to the pre-game hype squashed like a grape under a bone-jarring Bone Scott bell-ringer, whichever way Game Two pans out a little piece of rugby league history will be made.

    A New South Wales win will see the Blues snap one of Australian sport's greatest ever dynasties and eight-year olds across the Premier state will finally know what it feels like to have a triumphant Origin outfit to call their very own.

    The return of the suspended Greg Bird for the Cockroaches, as well as the selection of an undeniably dynamic, but defensively suspect right-edge in Josh Dugan and Will Hopoate has Laurie Daley fielding a side that will live and die by the collective sword, adopting the mindset that if Queensland are to keep the Series alive, it won't be because the Blues lacked the heavy offensive artillery to match them.

    Having produced one of the most desperate defensive efforts in Origin history three weeks ago for their first win in a live rubber at Suncorp in almost a decade, everyone from the tabloids to the token office rugby league nufty is channelling a bit of Gough Whitlam circa 1972, declaring "It's Time" for NSW. And with their opponent seemingly on the ropes and a chance to claim the shield on home turf for the first time since 2008, Paul Gallen and co. simply won't get a better opportunity than this to land a knockout punch.

    The Maroons have named every banana-bender available (with rumours Adam Mogg declined an invitation to join Mal Meninga's camp) in a 21-man squad that incredibly could have used a couple of extra bodies, with Canberra's Josh Papalii (ankle)and Brisbane's Corey Parker (facial fracture) going down inside the first 48 hours of their preparations.

    With superstars Greg Inglis (knee), Billy Slater (shoulder) and Daly Cherry-Evans (knee) all in varying degrees of doubt and first-choice Cooper Cronk already incapacitated by the broken arm suffered at Suncorp, all Meninga needs is a famine or plague of locusts to step the Queenslanders pre-game hardships up to biblical proportions. So if they can snag a win down south of the border it will be one worthy of an entry into the good book itself, filed under M for minor miracle.

    Only once in six attempts have the Maroons successfully marched into foreign territory needing a win to keep the series alive in Game Two, when they out-slogged the Blues 12-6 in the mud and slop of a classic SCG quagmire back in 1987, meaning 27 years of history will have to be pushed to one side for Queensland to keep the Series alive.
    Which all adds up to Queensland being at arguably their most dangerous. The whole thing: The incumbents dropping like flies, the brash Sydney media declaring them dead in the water, Johnathan Thurston on the rebound from one of his worst outings at interstate level; it's all got the whiff of the smelliest underdog imaginable about it, just the way the Maroons like it.

    NSW are now the shortest-priced favourites they've been in donkey's years, but the only sure bet is that Queensland's plethora of out-and-out champions will love nothing more than to remind the boys in blue just why they've been so dominant over the years with the mother of all backs-to-the-wall wins.

    So whether it's the Blues or Maroons that come up trumps, one thing's for certain; this one's going to be bigger than Ben Hur, the Beatles and Jesus combined. Hell, it'll be bigger than Game One.

    Watch Out Blues: There's just something about scrawny, sandy-blonde halfbacks in maroon jumpers that gives NSW the heebie-jeebies, and cue up the cheesy, 1980s sitcom theme music, because now Cherry's in charge. Thrust into halfback nine minutes into Game One after spending the majority of pre-game camp prepping the water station, cutting oranges or whatever it is utility players do while the big boys run the show, Daly Cherry-Evans gets his chance to leave his 'super sub' tag well and truly in the rear-view mirror with his first start in the Queensland No. 7. He'll do so in the rarest of form, having engineered three Manly tries in 10 minutes to score a knockout win over the NSW halves pairing of Hodkinson and Reynolds in Round 13, all while hobbling about the Brookvale mud and slop on one leg. And didn't that first try, the double-grubber effort before finding an unmarked Steve Matai, have more than a touch of Alfie Langer about it? Langer incidentally was the Maroons halfback for that 1987 triumph in the wet at the SCG, and with eight try assists in 10 games this year and a running game that should come with a health warning for opposition defences, the Cane Toads are confident Cherry-Evans will be at full fitness and in full flight and capable of casuing the Blues plenty of headaches.

    Watch Out Maroons: Jarryd Hayne ensured he won't be buying anther beer in 2014 when he "went to a place I'd never been before" in Game One. Where the Hayne Plane went exactly we don't know, but if he can retrace his flight path and replicate one of the greatest individual performances in Origin history on home turf, it's safe to say his children's children will be dining out for free their entire lives. Hayne was the difference at Suncorp, plain and simple, and Johnathan Thurston's still trying to get the Blues custodian's musk out of his jumper after Hayne took every opportunity to target him down NSW's right edge. Given JT came up with seven misses in defence, including the two on Hayne that led directly to both of the Blues' tries, he can expect to get reacquainted with those tree-trunk thighs from the word go come Wednesday night. With 10 tries, nine try assists and 56 tackle breaks at NRL level this year Hayne is the form player in the game at the moment, and the scary thing for Queensland is the 26-year-old typically rises to another level in the interstate arena.

    Plays To Watch: The Blues' forwards took a leaf out of the Bulldogs' playbook in Game One, repeatedly taking the ball to the line before turning and laying the off a short ball to an angled runner, with Reynolds and Hayne frequently coming back against the grain and directing play at the Maroons' inside defenders. With Dugan now rounding out a trio of the game's best broken-field runners for NSW, expect the ploy to get another workout late in each half as the defence tires.
    For the Maroons, Billy Slater's kick returns in Game One gave them a huge leg-up when starting their sets, as the Storm custodian's 131 metres bringing the ball back almost doubled the combined 75 kick return metres of Hayne, Brett Morris and Daniel Tupou. NSW will need to tighten up their kick chase lest they want to play a bit of rugby league Russian roulette and back themselves to run Slater down after he's broken the line, a feat he performed once in each half at Suncorp.

    Where It Will Be Won: For all the Ferraris kept out the back by both outfits – and with the likes of Hayne, Dugan, Jennings, Slater, Inglis and Hodges featuring there will be more flash than an Italian car show lining up at ANZ – it will be the side that packs more grunt up front that will go furthest towards winning this contest. The Blues did a phenomenal job of keeping the Queensland pack under wraps in Game One, with Nate Myles the only Maroons forward to top 100 running metres and Matt Scott, arguably the world's best bookend, limited to just 88 metres, well down on his season average of 148m for the Cowboys. The Queenslanders' addition of Jacob Lillyman to the squad gives Meninga another renowned metre-eater off the bench that could swing the all-important territory battle in their favour, but with Gallen, Tamou, Woods and Merrin the Blues also possess the necessary cavalry to more than match the Maroons up the middle.

    The History: Played 100; Queensland 53, NSW 45, drawn 2. Of the 17 Game Two fixtures played on NSW turf, the Blues have won 12 to the Maroons' five, though Queensland have dominated the middle fixture over the past 10 years, claiming seven Origin II wins since 2004. In that period the Blues have scored more than 20 points just once (a 32-22 win in'05) while the Maroons have done so on seven occasions for six victories.

    Match Officials: Referees – Shayne Hayne and Ben Cummins; Touch Judges – Russell Turner and Nick Beashell; Video Referees – Steve Clark and Luke Patten.

    Televised: Channel Nine – Live from 7.30pm.

    How We See It: Queensland's pack will be champing at the bit after being overrun in the first half at Suncorp, but the Blues big men will have taken plenty of confidence out of claiming a points decision over their rivals in front of their own fans. If they can match that effort and Hodkinson and Reynolds maintain their cool heads, the influence of Hayne could well prove the difference yet again. NSW by four points.
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    I can just see this being VERY VERY close. It has a point or two within it...

    I predicted the score, before..I know it but with the team changes, I'll go with NSW 10 - QLD 8

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    It's a pity they couldn't find room for Zillman in the extended 22 man team. He could win it with his defensive capabilities alone..

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    Zillman > Inglis


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