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The NSW side for State of Origin III taken from the NSWRL website: Jarryd Hayne – Parramatta Eels Brett Morris – St George Illawarra Dragons Michael Jennings – Penrith Panthers Beau Scott – St George Illawarra Dragons Michael Gordon – Penrith Panthers Trent Barrett (c) – Cronulla Sharks Mitchell Pearce – Sydney Roosters Jason King [...]

A game already overshadowed by Andrew John’s racist remarks that lead to Timana Tahu leaving the Blues camp. Steve Mascord has written a great piece about the casual racism behind the “average Aussie bloke.” And people elsewhere have pointed out why is there not more fuss over the second word uttered by Johns? Tahu’s actions [...]

It seems with concerns over injuries and the judiciary NSW have name 21 players for the intial squad for Origin II. They are: Trent Barrett, Matt Cooper, Ben Creagh, Josh Dugan, Michael Ennis, Paul Gallen, Kurt Gidley, Jarryd Hayne, Nathan Hindmarsh, Jamal Idris, Jason King, Tom Learoyd-Lahrs, Luke Lewis, Brett Morris, Luke O’Donnell, Mitchell Pearce, [...]

We had Kimmorely, they had Thurston. What more can you say? I was at the game and from bay 123, Kimmorely tried hard but he just doesn’t have that ultimate bit of class that Thurston can provide. The thing was that the NSW forwards made ground often during the match. But when the attack is [...]

It is a ridiculous concept on which to build a game of football. The use of what should be an archaic notion of parochialism to foment such passion is bizarre. It wouldn’t be so bad in Queensland would just accept their lesser status as an off cut of New South Wales but for some reason [...]

Well, at the moment I couldn’t pick the winner in a two horse race even if one horse was missing a leg and its jockey was a sumo wrestler. But I can turn to speculation about the make up of the New South Wales Origin team. It is easy to be an armchair selector. And [...]