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This will be my last comment on SOO debate on this thread... but im sick of this nonsense about cheats etc..

the reason why NSW continue to lose is because they preoccupied with what they missed out rather than working on what they can improve with what they have. I feel sorry for the Josh brothers whose done a good job yet instead of motivating them, NSW people still continues to cry over what if they had inglis...etc. its such a disrespect to the josh brothers and other centres or players to say... you are only there cause we have noone we can pick and QLD got our good players. please dont tell me if thats the best selection from NSW is people they have in QLD... its sad. so what if they inglis chose QLD... if he wants to play for qld then so be it. you rather have inglis forced to play for you so you can win yet the players feels like forced to work.... sad isnt it.

Totally agreed, I think if you look at the SOO recent history in the past 10-12 years, it was still pretty even!!

In 2000, game 3, NSW put 50s (Girdler kicked 10 goals and scored a hat trick of tries!!) on the Maroons and no one in QLD was crying, instead, Wayne Bennett blooded 7 debutants including 3 Cowboys and beat NSW fair and square in 2001, game 1 - and Peter Stirling has this quote while commentating: "Oh, just stop the fight!!"

NSW won game 2, and Wayne brought Alfie back from England for game 3 and put 40s on NSW and the rest is just SOO legend and history. Then it was 1-1 in 2002, and game 3 was a draw after Dane Carlaw scored and Lote failed to kick the goal to win the game and series. so for a drawn series, Qld retained the Shield.

Then NSW won 3 series in a row in 2003, 2004 and 2005 and everyone in NSW were calling the concept of Origin is dead!!. Especially in game 3 in 2005, Andrew Johns pretty much single handedly destroyed the Maroons (the way and manner in the next six or seven years that Lockyer, Thurston, Smith and Slater would destroy NSW!!).

Look, if Andrew Johns was not retired pre-maturely, NSW would probably win a few more series and everyone will be right in saying Origin is DEAD because QLD is no match for NSW and as a matter of facts, up until 2007, Qld had never even win a game in the ANZ Stadium!!

Losing players is a big deal, QLD lost Karmichael and Folau to the AFL too, and see how the evil big bucks of the AFL has ruined the career of two great Queenslanders!!

Yes, let's just rest our case and concentrate on punting instead................haha

Cheers