State of Origin GAME 3 Teams

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Queensland squad: Billy Slater, Darius Boyd, Greg Inglis, Justin Hodges, Brent Tate, Johnathan Thurston, Cooper Cronk, Matt Scott, Cameron Smith (capt), Nate Myles, Chris McQueen, Sam Thaiday, Corey Parker.

Interchange: Daly Cherry-Evans, Ben Te'o, Matt Gillett, Josh Papalii. 18th man: Jacob Lillyman.

NSW side (at the moment) depending on injuries and night club bonding incidents

1. Josh Dugan 2. Brett Morris 3. Michael Jennings 4. Josh Morris 5. James McManus

6. James Maloney 7. Mitchell Pearce 8. Paul Gallen © 9. Robbie Farah (vc)

10. James Tamou 11. Ryan Hoffman 12. Luke Lewis 13. Greg Bird…

Interchange bench 14. Andrew Fifita 15. Trent Merrin 16. Josh Reynolds 17. Anthony Watmough

(extras covering Haynes,Gallen and Bird)18. Aaron Woods 19.James McManus now in, replaces Haynes) 20. Boyd Cordner

EDIT: Queensland also invited Will Chambers to the Maroons camp on the Sunshine Coast as part of coach Mal Meninga's ``mini-transition'' of the team.

With Justin Hodges and Brent Tate indicating this will be their final Origin series, Meninga appears keen to inject potential replacements into the camp to fast-track their Maroons education.

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A couple of quick and early elbows, headbutts and leg twists and the Blues will crumble as usual.

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A couple of quick and early elbows, headbutts and leg twists and the Blues will crumble as usual.

going by Dean Richie`s reporting(?)of Game 1,I do not understand how Qld is not 2 up in the series.

Here is part of the journalistic master piece that NSW maestro of ‘spin and taurus crapus’ Dean Ritchie`s wrote about Game 1.. From:The Daily Telegraph: June 07, 2013

The Daily Telegraph can today reveal how beaten Queensland reverted to knee twisting, shoulder charges, leading with the head, grapple tackles, throat grabs, scorpion tackles, flops, elbows to the back of the head and a leg pull in their desperate bid to go one-up on Wednesday night.

Queensland stars Greg Inglis, Nate Myles, Cam Smith, Johnathan Thurston, Sam Thaiday and Ashley Harrison were the offenders….[end of quote]

Just to add some credence to his journalistic master piece, Richie included a quote from little Benny..

"Nothing would surprise me when it comes to Queensland," former Blues captain Ben Elias said.

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http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/nrl/paul-gallen-ruled-out-of-the-state-of-origin-decider/story-fniabjcr-1226678359854

Todays fitness/medical test on Gallen`s foot injury rules him out of Game 3. Robbie Farah is the new captain. Aaron Woods comes into the squad.

There`s 3 bonuses for Qld in the one day, add in goneski referee Ashley Klein, and it`s starting to look a lot like Xmas in July for the Maroons :evil:

/>http://www.nrl.com/nsw-capt-gallen-out-of-origin-decider/tabid/10874/newsid/73429/default.aspx

NSW coach Laurie Daley called a team huddle at training where he broke the news to his players and Woods was hugged and high-fived by his Blues teammates following his promotion.

Considering Woods was 1 of 2, automatic NSW rejects after the Game 2 loss, I would imagine Woods does feel warmly wanted and welcomed by the Bloos outfit.

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Who's going to whinge for the blues now?

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Who's going to whinge for the blues now?

Bird or Farah... their both qualified

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Just to add some credence to his journalistic master piece, Richie included a quote from little Benny..

"Nothing would surprise me when it comes to Queensland," former Blues captain Ben Elias said.

Yes...well..that's the pot boiling the kettle black Elias!

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Just to add some credence to his journalistic master piece, Richie included a quote from little Benny..

"Nothing would surprise me when it comes to Queensland," former Blues captain Ben Elias said.

Yes...well..that's the pot boiling the kettle black Elias!

are you politely implying something?

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http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/gallen-a-goner-but-cordners-ready-for-origin-baptism-of-fire-20130712-2pu7j.html

Sydney Roosters forward Boyd Cordner will make his State of Origin debut in Wednesday's decider, with NSW coach Laurie Daley revamping his bench following skipper Paul Gallen's withdrawal on Friday.

Daley is also considering making a further change by switching Greg Bird to five-eighth and putting James Maloney on the bench to shield him from the early Maroons onslaught.

In another change on Friday, Daley dropped Josh Reynolds from his interchange bench. Reynolds will now play for the Bulldogs on Sunday against Melbourne, before rejoining the Blues squad as 18th man.