Quote Originally Posted by RodgHerMoore View Post
Yes I agree. They were missing Reece Walsh. I like watching the Broncos because of the rebuild story and how much difference Adam Reynolds has made to that team.

Btw curious to know how you're supporting Maroons? Fan of the players in the cam smith/slater era or from there?

Thx for kudos in other thread
Well, there were two particular reasons why I considered myself a “Queenslander” and why I would always support the Maroons:

1. I arrived in Australia as a young skilled migrant in the last century and landed in Eagle Farm as my first job in this country was in Elizabeth St Brisbane. That would make me a Queensland origin , no ?

2. Coming from Hong Kong, I knew nothing about the local sports such as Cricket (boring was my first impression, how could you play a game over 5 days and most of the scores were like 5 dots and 1 run………lol), football to me was soccer and soccer only, rugby league, Union or AFL , never even heard of them.

Then one day in the 90’s. Workmates had organised an event to watch a State of Origin game in Moore Park. Queensland won that match of course and we got to join the after match party at the Bondi Hotel where the Maroons were staying. I was very lucky to meet big Mal the Captain and of course, the rest was history.

You mentioned about Cam Smith/Slater - of course that was correct but they came to the scene much later .

My Rugby League journey went like this:

Supporting Queensland, follow big Mal, then automatically followed the Canberra Raiders.

Big Mal retired and Alfie Langer took over as Maroons Captain so I switched to follow the Broncos, then Lockyer and when Lockyer retired and Smith took over as Captain I switch to the Storms.

Now that all the legends from the golden era have all retired and becoming the coaching team. I just continue to follow the Queenslanders in Storms, Broncos, Cowboys, etc.

Go Queensland!