Speaker 1: Mister bray Raley tackling. He wasn't tackle, He's got the
Speaker 1: bottom line, ran Sam Young scars on the summer.
Speaker 2: Series The Blues and Condes Sun Cop.
Speaker 1: Three, the host through the ages.
Speaker 3: Welcome to a very very special edition of the Code
Speaker 3: NRL Show.
Speaker 4: It's the Code.
Speaker 3: State of Origin Show. Michael carry onists. It is a
Speaker 3: great night if you're a new South Wales fan. But
Speaker 3: if you're a Queensland.
Speaker 2: Fan, you're sitting in roode chair.
Speaker 5: It could be the humble Pie Show.
Speaker 4: It is the humble Pie Show.
Speaker 5: Ready, how are you feeling, mate?
Speaker 2: Well? We lost simple, we lost a series, the Unlosable series.
Speaker 2: Was the Unlosable series?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was just very disappointing.
Speaker 6: They got completely outplayed and all my fears came true.
Speaker 2: Nathan Cleary.
Speaker 1: But to make a lot of tackles down here is
Speaker 1: Billy just poured out clearing. Right foot step accelerates, it's
Speaker 1: come to dot.
Speaker 6: There He's done there, played out of his skin. Wrote
Speaker 6: a column battle last Friday. He was the one fear
Speaker 6: I had.
Speaker 7: Yo to clearing Now to Martin dependent combination and a
Speaker 7: former panther crime.
Speaker 1: Now it's past the thirty dead. Sometimes again the right
Speaker 1: a RS step two right handed ball double for Clary,
Speaker 1: two tries for the world.
Speaker 2: He won Man in the mass, he won the wall
Speaker 2: inst Medal. So that was my concern. That's what happened.
Speaker 6: And queens And were off the place from the start,
Speaker 6: very disappointing, completely outplayed.
Speaker 7: Sometimes always said here we throughout the series, like I've
Speaker 7: read a New South was off too, I've got probably
Speaker 7: run about ru.
Speaker 2: Run.
Speaker 7: We sit here and we're highly critical of New South
Speaker 7: Wales individual performances.
Speaker 5: Right, well, let's do the same with Queensland.
Speaker 2: Let's stewart.
Speaker 7: They were inept, they were poor, they didn't handle the burden.
Speaker 7: The expectation had been favorites and they've they've bumbled and
Speaker 7: fumbled their way to a series lost. That was mediocre
Speaker 7: from Queensland. And if it was New South Wales, they'd
Speaker 7: all be sitting here smashing them.
Speaker 5: So let's return.
Speaker 4: So the key to these.
Speaker 3: Blues victory to Mixed Point was the fact that the
Speaker 3: Queensland had the Blues on the back foot for the
Speaker 3: first seven minutes of the match. The Blues were forced
Speaker 3: to have a yardage carry after yardage carry out of
Speaker 3: their own end. Queensland failed to put the slipper in early,
Speaker 3: allowing the Blues to get the jump on them and
Speaker 3: ultimately silence silenced that fifty two thousand Sun Corps dated
Speaker 3: even crowd very early in the.
Speaker 6: Mid like Munster Walker Ponger, We're out standing through the
Speaker 6: open two games. That bad nights tonight pretty clear when
Speaker 6: the series on the line. They didn't name up, they
Speaker 6: didn't aim up like Nathan Cleary, they didn't aame up
Speaker 6: like Mitchell Moses, who you bikes both wanted sacked?
Speaker 7: Right, Let's just find Mitchell Moses was out Did you
Speaker 7: both want him?
Speaker 2: Say you wanted Ethan Strange. Let's be honest, all right,
Speaker 2: Mitchell mos was outstanding.
Speaker 5: Focus on Queens we're talking about We'll.
Speaker 2: Get Callen Monster was outstanding.
Speaker 5: Get to South Wales and Caitlin.
Speaker 6: Had a quiet night as well. Harry Harry tried. I
Speaker 6: thought Harry tried really hard but didn't create like he
Speaker 6: has in the first two games.
Speaker 2: There's no doubt in the key positions Queens are outplayed.
Speaker 3: And why why did they not have the advantage to
Speaker 3: play because pain Hess Mitch Barnett Adam for Noil Blake
Speaker 3: silenced the Marines pack.
Speaker 2: The famous.
Speaker 8: Run breaking success of twenty fourteen Granilla Blake.
Speaker 7: What a pass, what a moment, best to be the
Speaker 7: open he gave them a.
Speaker 6: Repson Playoffs was that's one of the best games we
Speaker 6: have seen paintass play, not just at origin level, at
Speaker 6: any level. He was dominant. Right and again we've been
Speaker 6: critical of Adam Vanilla Blake. In fact, on this show
Speaker 6: we probably called.
Speaker 7: For I wouldn't have had it was amazing. He's first
Speaker 7: was what we've been craving for. We hadn't seen. He
Speaker 7: was outstanding. The credit where credits he was very good
Speaker 7: tonight Billy Sladers now lost two series the side as
Speaker 7: in Brisbane.
Speaker 5: Any pressure on him?
Speaker 4: Ready?
Speaker 2: He won three out of four series he's lost. He's
Speaker 2: lost lost two series out of five.
Speaker 5: But two in Queensland where.
Speaker 2: He's lost two series. Of matter where you win it.
Speaker 5: What matters whether you two of the last three series.
Speaker 2: But he's won three out of five.
Speaker 5: Mate, Okay, that's that's Freddy said that. Don't forget.
Speaker 7: Let's rewind when Freddy was when Freddy was coach, Freddy
Speaker 7: said said something similar went on the Golden Run to start,
Speaker 7: and then kept referring back to his record and.
Speaker 6: Next year it's a different conversation. Right, there's no doubt
Speaker 6: about that. Billy is a coach again next year. He
Speaker 6: loses next year and it turns three out of his
Speaker 6: last four series. It's a different.
Speaker 3: Certainly more weight to mix argument. You don't lose on
Speaker 3: your home saw Mate, not at Uncle, not at Lange Part. Statistically,
Speaker 3: statistically Queensland win deciders at Uncle, but they also hasn't
Speaker 3: been able to do it.
Speaker 6: Well, he's lost last two, right, but as I said,
Speaker 6: he's won three out of five series. That's what matters.
Speaker 6: It doesn't matter whether you win the series at Sunk Corporate,
Speaker 6: at the Core Stadium or the m c G or Perth.
Speaker 6: It matters that you win the series. That's what's important.
Speaker 6: And he's won three or five. And yes, if he
Speaker 6: loses next year, Billy will be under a Billy will
Speaker 6: start next year series under immense pressure.
Speaker 2: Why's smiling?
Speaker 7: I just love seeing you under the roads because queens
Speaker 7: they lost the series and we get to be critical.
Speaker 2: It's an unusual field.
Speaker 8: Pathetic fools are the losers, don't get or I was told, well,
Speaker 8: I want.
Speaker 6: To be I want to city to be magnanimous. Right,
Speaker 6: but you flew the first game. The series should have
Speaker 6: been over.
Speaker 2: Like I said, you've got very very lucky. You got
Speaker 2: very lucky.
Speaker 6: But I'm going to be magnanimals because you know what,
Speaker 6: I'm happy for Laurie Daily, because I've been as critical
Speaker 6: of Lori Daly as anyone, right, but I'm really happy
Speaker 6: for Laurie Daily.
Speaker 2: Who saw him after the game to night. He was
Speaker 2: in tears.
Speaker 6: You could see what what what meant to him, and
Speaker 6: we all love last night. He's one of the great
Speaker 6: blokes in the game in regular league. And I've been
Speaker 6: critical of his coach in this year series as well.
Speaker 2: You know what coach that.
Speaker 3: Was theft the bench right, They got the changes right.
Speaker 4: Spot on. But this is why easily you said I
Speaker 4: didn't give the Blues a chance. That's incorrect.
Speaker 3: I did because this was the best balanced side of
Speaker 3: the entire series.
Speaker 4: It actually probably took the.
Speaker 3: Wards of Origin one the Blood of Origin two to
Speaker 3: get to this point in time. Unfortunately, that maybe the
Speaker 3: benefit of being a three game series that he finally
Speaker 3: got there, and maybe they did get the rubber of
Speaker 3: the green in game one.
Speaker 4: Right, maybe, but that but that doesn't matter the results.
Speaker 3: The results and so when they get the Game three
Speaker 3: it's it was the best balanced team that Laurie has
Speaker 3: ever picked.
Speaker 4: Liam Martin was inspired.
Speaker 1: Didn't concur special? Did you come from about thirty?
Speaker 7: We've been critical of New South Wales right, but we
Speaker 7: said on this podcast last week or straight after the
Speaker 7: team was picked that this was the best site and
Speaker 7: the best bat balance side. The game two side was horrendous.
Speaker 7: For this Game three side, it just had the right
Speaker 7: balance to it. So you thought that they could be
Speaker 7: a chance. I thought Queens was gonna we let's not
Speaker 7: rewrite history.
Speaker 5: I thought Queens they.
Speaker 7: Were going to win, right, But that side that New
Speaker 7: South Wales pick was their best site and as Ready
Speaker 7: alluded to initially to start with, they outperform Queensland and
Speaker 7: they were so good in New South Wales, was like,
Speaker 7: so so good.
Speaker 5: Nathan Clear is open in stint. Yeah we've seen him do.
Speaker 3: There was the steel on I know he scored the
Speaker 3: two tris, but the steel on Selwyn Cobo was I
Speaker 3: think it was he.
Speaker 4: It was the moment for him.
Speaker 5: They don't win the game unless he scores two tries
Speaker 5: in the fir and.
Speaker 3: Like he says, the game he found capable with a
Speaker 3: nice big right foot step and then the support played
Speaker 3: through Crichton.
Speaker 7: He sets up the game right and we've seen him
Speaker 7: do it for Penrith. We seen him to do where
Speaker 7: he has these fifteen minute periods where he is untouchable,
Speaker 7: right and again it was like that and then his
Speaker 7: next big moment, you're right there. That was a huge moment,
Speaker 7: the one on one still but then he sort of.
Speaker 4: Goes, I don't know, he's such at the game.
Speaker 7: It's weird, right, like that fifteen minutes he's untouchable, right,
Speaker 7: and he sets up the game and New South Wales
Speaker 7: do not win again without Like game one, he wasn't
Speaker 7: the best player on the field, one man of the
Speaker 7: match because without him they don't win. Right again tonight,
Speaker 7: without Nathan Cleary they don't win this.
Speaker 6: This ends the debate over owning Origin. I heard Gus
Speaker 6: say on Channel nine. This owning Origin it's rubbish. It's
Speaker 6: not rubbish, right. The fact is to be regarded as
Speaker 6: one of the all time greats and awardal of the game.
Speaker 6: He needed to own an Origin series, he needed to
Speaker 6: win a decider. He's now done it. The debate's over
Speaker 6: for me. There's two mortals in our game, that or
Speaker 6: two Peblies should become a mortals. Camus Smiths won and
Speaker 6: that will happen soon enough, and the next play will
Speaker 6: be when he retires Nathan, because he's now you know,
Speaker 6: he's won premierships, he won the Wallly Lewis Medal tonight,
Speaker 6: and he and he owned origin. As I said, gust
Speaker 6: thinks it's rubbish in this area. Gusta know what he's
Speaker 6: talking about, right, because owning origin is a thing, and
Speaker 6: he's now owned it.
Speaker 2: I think knows a little bit about well, not on
Speaker 2: this front, so.
Speaker 5: Doesn't know what he is.
Speaker 3: I've written the exact same thing tomorrow's telegramy that the
Speaker 3: Immortal debate is now dead.
Speaker 4: Hail the new King, Nathan Cleary. Do you agree?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I agree, He's just it's just so we're talking about
Speaker 7: the peers that he plays. No, I haven't seen anyone
Speaker 7: play better peeriods than nathink when I'm talking fifteen minute blocks, right,
Speaker 7: we've seen camp Smith. There's two mortals in my lifetime,
Speaker 7: John's camp Smith. They're the only two that I would
Speaker 7: John's obviously an a mortal, and camp Smith I would
Speaker 7: have in there. But they dominate for eighty minutes. Nathan
Speaker 7: just picks his moments and when he goes in for
Speaker 7: the kill, they have none better.
Speaker 3: On the flip side, Sam Walker incredible in game one,
Speaker 3: incredible in Game two. Had a very very rough night tonight.
Speaker 2: Well, they got at it tonight. I think Liam mark
Speaker 2: cap on the other side of the field.
Speaker 7: The right hand side to put on his earlier so
Speaker 7: they got.
Speaker 6: After him and physically he spent some time on the
Speaker 6: sideline right, so he got beaten up a bit physically,
Speaker 6: and he never really got into the game. And I
Speaker 6: would say them, no, you know, but I don't think
Speaker 6: we should sell short Sammi Walker series. I think he
Speaker 6: had an outstanding series with Queens, and he just didn't
Speaker 6: have his best tonight. And that's unfortunate for people remember
Speaker 6: his last game, right, But I think he had a
Speaker 6: great series, Sam Walker.
Speaker 7: So people were talking leading into this game like, obviously
Speaker 7: Origin is a long way away from next year. Who
Speaker 7: knows what can happen, But Tom did and I think
Speaker 7: walks Up Start Walk Walk Up Star.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I think if well, I was going
Speaker 6: to say, I would have had him going through.
Speaker 2: But I wouldn't have the way se him.
Speaker 6: Could you could, but next year Tommy walks into the
Speaker 6: team because he's the best half back.
Speaker 2: But at least you know now with Sam.
Speaker 5: If he's needed, he'll play Origin again.
Speaker 2: He's good Origin. Yeah, of course he got a month
Speaker 2: still retire.
Speaker 3: I spoke earlier about the Queensland Pack getting absolutely monstered
Speaker 3: by the Blues back. Would Pat Carrigan have made a difference?
Speaker 3: Did Billy make a blunder not playing Pat Carrigan? Uh?
Speaker 6: Well, I can't remember how the interchanges played out, but
Speaker 6: it was their first one. You would imagine I Patty
Speaker 6: Carrigan's I mean Patty hadn't played any footy into the game, right,
Speaker 6: that's the but.
Speaker 4: He was chosen by Billy. Billy and said he was
Speaker 4: ready to gain.
Speaker 6: That's the risk he had taken with Pat. But in
Speaker 6: my eyes, Pat's been a player than trently Era.
Speaker 4: I agree.
Speaker 6: So if you're going to bring one of them one,
Speaker 6: you'd probably bring on Patty. Right, There was obviously reason why.
Speaker 5: The only saving grace is that he hasn't played football.
Speaker 7: If he'd played, if he'd even had one game, yeah,
Speaker 7: I'd be calling it a blunder. But the fact that
Speaker 7: he hadn't played footy. They had to get Reese Welsh
Speaker 7: onto the field to try and obviously Sam Walker came off,
Speaker 7: but I think Reecee was probably used anyway to try
Speaker 7: and spark life into it. It's it's tough because you
Speaker 7: couldn't have used him as your first interchange, because if
Speaker 7: something had happened and you needed Pat to play sixty
Speaker 7: minutes off the back of having not played for a while,
Speaker 7: that would have been tough.
Speaker 3: Extraordinary how quickly it changes. We go into the game
Speaker 3: thinking that this could decide the origin futures of Blues players.
Speaker 3: Now eighty minutes later we see here thinking it has
Speaker 3: only solidified the future of so many Blues players. Jack
Speaker 3: Boss got on taboo, held his gloves up and and
Speaker 3: and biggest concern was him coming out of yardage.
Speaker 1: Throws it back a couple of bounces, walk at a grab.
Speaker 1: You'll pick out why he's trying to get it in
Speaker 1: behind the new South Wales defense. Boss stocks back there.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have a job to get back.
Speaker 4: He does. He does.
Speaker 3: That's a huge play, Jack Bosstop, that's an origin play.
Speaker 3: He did his best at a time when he was
Speaker 3: on the back floor. Great on the under the high ball.
Speaker 3: He'll get another crack for sure, Bradman best.
Speaker 7: All the changes, changes that they made are a winner,
Speaker 7: even the non changes because.
Speaker 2: Credit where credits kicking game.
Speaker 6: I thought the opening half hour just pin Queen's end
Speaker 6: back right, even when you said was struggling out of
Speaker 6: their own end, Mits just bombed bombed it long and
Speaker 6: the momentum change and Mitch showed tonight. He's an elite
Speaker 6: man like Nathan's obviously a great player and those we've
Speaker 6: seen that those two guys can play together and play
Speaker 6: well together because Mitch is an elite football.
Speaker 5: No one's doubted that Mitches is an elite player.
Speaker 7: It's just his form has been horrendously bad and was
Speaker 7: bad when he went back to Paramount.
Speaker 5: That was the concern because we all picked.
Speaker 7: I was happy for him to play Game two right,
Speaker 7: but off the back of that performance and the way
Speaker 7: he backed up for Paramatta, that was the concern. But
Speaker 7: he had a great game, had a great game. Stephen
Speaker 7: Crichton's return was awesome. You know, Liam Martin, what a selection,
Speaker 7: what a selection.
Speaker 2: We all called for that, but he's still still understand
Speaker 2: that was.
Speaker 3: What about I'm only not getting on what would you
Speaker 3: bring the constance, but.
Speaker 6: Liam Martin was like, that was that is the typle
Speaker 6: Liam Martin performance. He just got under everyone's skin, got instincts, face.
Speaker 4: Perfect, more of it.
Speaker 7: I can't knock the bench director. Obviously in an ideal
Speaker 7: world he would have gone on, right, but you know
Speaker 7: Cam Murray first, I can't argue with Adam finol Blake's
Speaker 7: opening stint best he's played in Origin but like easily better,
Speaker 7: better than.
Speaker 4: The best game he's played this year.
Speaker 7: Correct, correct, And then Coler had to come on just
Speaker 7: before halftime because of AHI. So if color doesn't come on,
Speaker 7: I think it gets used. And then I think they
Speaker 7: needed to use Brayley, having heard not used a second hooker.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I'll look on to in this instance. In
Speaker 5: this instance, unlucky not to get.
Speaker 6: On after bubbling the way for the first two games
Speaker 6: male game three when it matter there, it's that easy.
Speaker 4: Who knew Laurie daily. We still firmly believe this is
Speaker 4: it far.
Speaker 5: I want Laurie to ride off into the sunset.
Speaker 7: It's a perfect way to end. Told you so I
Speaker 7: can coach. Look what I've done. Unlucky Brent, unlucky Michael Dave.
Speaker 7: You'll still with us, but the rest of us, you know, like, go,
Speaker 7: you've done it, you've come back, you've won a series.
Speaker 7: You're won in Queensland. Thank you for your service, Laurie,
Speaker 7: well done. You've proved this all wrong.
Speaker 6: Yea, As I said, I mean, I hate it when
Speaker 6: Queensland loses, but I'm happy for That's the one thing
Speaker 6: I'm happy about because, as I said, we he got
Speaker 6: ridiculed and something not not by the media. I don't
Speaker 6: think you're ridiculed by the public, right, ridiculed by the public, criticized,
Speaker 6: and he got scrutinized by the media for his coaching
Speaker 6: and some of the decisions he's made. And that's how
Speaker 6: that's our job, right, that's what we do. And you know,
Speaker 6: I think the scrutiny was spot on most of the time, right,
Speaker 6: but he got it right when it mattered in the end,
Speaker 6: and he deserves immense credit for that.
Speaker 2: And you know, I'm happy for the guy because you could.
Speaker 6: See he has looked to me throughout the series inside guy,
Speaker 6: under immense strain, personal strain.
Speaker 2: So to see him tonight, you know, I'm happy for
Speaker 2: the guy.
Speaker 3: Probably the most controversial moment of the game was the
Speaker 3: opportunity for Queensland was a crossfield kick.
Speaker 1: What a kick?
Speaker 4: It is lost at high over Jojo fafeed his head.
Speaker 3: He challenges the ball, so too to Jack Boss got
Speaker 3: the ball bounces free, Bradman best ninety meters, scores a try.
Speaker 3: They go to the bunker and it's deemed not a
Speaker 3: knock on from Boss Stock. I admit I thought it
Speaker 3: was a knock I thought there was a touch there
Speaker 3: from Boss Stock.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's my first instinct to Dave.
Speaker 7: It's hard to tell because we didn't get a clear
Speaker 7: cut look at the replay, but my initial reaction live
Speaker 7: was that it was a knock on, yeah, and that
Speaker 7: New South Wales potentially got away with one that I
Speaker 7: think Ready's got a harder dance on.
Speaker 1: That was.
Speaker 6: It was eighteen eight at that point, the game was
Speaker 6: still in the balance, right. It was a huge decision
Speaker 6: that changes that impacts significantly significantly on the game. Right,
Speaker 6: And for me, it looked like a knock on. Now,
Speaker 6: I'd like to watch you three well, I watched it
Speaker 6: three or four times time. It looked like a knock on, right.
Speaker 4: But in the call, Brad Fitler on.
Speaker 2: Got no luck in this this series.
Speaker 4: Here we go. All we had to do was give
Speaker 4: him an avenue to latch onto Robbed.
Speaker 2: I didn't say Robbed said they had no luck in
Speaker 2: this series.
Speaker 3: Brad Fidler in the Channeline commentary said that they used
Speaker 3: the an angle that we didn't see at home viewers,
Speaker 3: a corner post camera in line with the try line
Speaker 3: and therefore where the contest for the footy were.
Speaker 5: I need to see it. I need to see it
Speaker 5: because from what we saw it looked.
Speaker 6: Like why didn't we see that angle? If they were
Speaker 6: using it, we should be sure the punters should see
Speaker 6: that angle. Queens and fans should be given the given
Speaker 6: You know they should.
Speaker 2: Be because they were the ones suffered. They were the
Speaker 2: ones who suffered as a resultant that.
Speaker 5: You know why you suffered? Does your team played poorly?
Speaker 2: Yeah? They did, That's what you suffered.
Speaker 6: That was, on the face of it, a poor decision.
Speaker 6: I stand to be corrected if it's proved that it
Speaker 6: was right, but it did look very dodgy.
Speaker 3: It was a controversial decision. I must say. The referee
Speaker 3: actually climbed sensational. He came into the series under enormous pressure.
Speaker 3: I think he was fantastic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 4: From a refereeing point of view.
Speaker 2: The control the game really well, you know, and I'm going.
Speaker 4: To make the games. He did get the big moments right.
Speaker 7: The three game series, the game flowed and you can't
Speaker 7: say he impacted the result.
Speaker 6: I mean, the bunker made that cool client. So what
Speaker 6: you like to see is the referee not have influence
Speaker 6: over the result, and I don't think he did. I
Speaker 6: think the teams decided the results. Well, actually I forgot
Speaker 6: he sent off the blakeoff in game one, but this game,
Speaker 6: this game, the teams decided the result, and that's what
Speaker 6: you want to see.
Speaker 5: The ref didn't decide the resulting Game one, he did.
Speaker 2: Send a boke off.
Speaker 5: It was the actions of the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Of course. It was I agree with the center, agree
Speaker 2: with the center. I just said he didn't.
Speaker 3: You like.
Speaker 2: What I was saying was you.
Speaker 6: Don't know to see the referee influence the result, and
Speaker 6: in Origin what he did, but he had no choice.
Speaker 9: Lots of messages from people giving me stick. I'm sitting
Speaker 9: here cop and stick from you clowns because you finally
Speaker 9: won an Origin series, so you forgot what it's like
Speaker 9: to celebrate. So I understand enjoy your moment in the
Speaker 9: sun or your idiots pinging me. Enjoy your moment and
Speaker 9: the sun as well, because it doesn't last long because
Speaker 9: you don't get it.
Speaker 5: You're such an idiot.