Sometimes centre Michael Morgan swivelled and threw a near miracle ball and Holmes touched down for a dubious first try. This time it wasn't a white boot on the sideline chalk, but a ball starting to leave his hands which never quite did in time for NSW believers.
It came off the back of Smith, who taunted the same Blues which embarrassed Queensland through the middle in game one. If a week is a long time in rugby league, six weeks is an eternity. The Blues were blasted off the park. And doesn't Daley know it. Cronk should have scored on the next set, harassed into spilling the ball as he dived prematurely for the line after Queensland and the Storm's holy trinity carved the Blues to ribbons.
He wouldn't make a mistake again. On the back of another Smith-inspired break, Cronk kicked so flat and so fast it might have been a 40 metre pass right onto the chest of a grateful Holmes who had mugged an unsuspecting Blake Ferguson.
Smith converted from the sideline - the second time in 10 minutes - and the Maroons had a point lead at the break. None come better than Josh Dugan, so carefree with his ball handling in the first half, as he picked Holmes' pocket off a James Maloney kick. It was a lifeline when one never looked like coming, or barely deserved. So it proved. Munster broke through and found a juggling Holmes for his third. He even threw a speculator back infield which fell to Jarrod Wallace to score shortly after.
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State of Origin. Connect via Twitter or email. Only Cameron Smith 41 has made more State of Origin appearances than Thurston 37 , although the latter still holds the competition's all-time record for points scored on It's easy to ascertain the X-factor Thurston would have brought to Queensland given his status as a game-changer, and the manner in which he spoke about his Game 1 absence gives a sense of what his Game 3 absence means to the player, per Fox Sports :.
It is quite a view from there. You can see everything unfolding. As fate would have it, Brisbane Broncos starlet Anthony Milford, the man who replaced Thurston in Game 1, has since needed shoulder surgery, meaning Melbourne Storm's Cameron Munster will start on Wednesday. It's a pressure cauldron to be making one's State of Origin debut in, and the Blues may well target him just to the fringes of the breakdown as they seek to exploit any weakness they can get their hands on.
But NSW have some aces of their own, one of whom is prop Andrew Fifita, who provided a spearhead presence in Game 1 and has been backed to do so again by team-mate Aaron Woods, per the team's official Twitter account:. James Tedesco, 2.
Brett Morris, 3. Josh Dugan, 4. Jarryd Hayne, 5. Blake Ferguson, 6. James Maloney, 7. Mitchell Pearce, 8. Aaron Woods, 9. Nathan Peats, Andrew Fifita, Boyd Cordner c , Josh Jackson, Tyson Frizell. QLD: 1.
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