2013 State of Origin Series

Game 1: ANZ Stadium, Sydney - Wednesday, 5 June, 20:00 (AEST), 11:00 GMT

Game 2: Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane - Wednesday, 26 June, 20:00 (AEST), 11:00 GMT

Game 3: ANZ Stadium, Sydney - Wednesday, 17 July, 20:00 (AEST), 11:00 GMT

This will be the 32nd Series between The Blue and The Maroons.
Queensland have won 17 Series - 51 games
NSW have won 12 Series - 44 games
2 Series have been drawn.

The 2013 NSW and Queensland State of Origin teams are as follows:

NSW:
1 Jarryd Hayne, 2 Brett Morris, 3 Michael Jennings, 4 Josh Morris, 5 Blake Ferguson, 6 James Maloney, 7 Mitchell Pearce,
8 James Tamou, 9 Robbie Farah, 10 Paul Gallen (c), 11 Ryan Hoffman, 12 Luke Lewis, 13 Greg Bird.
Interchange: 14 Anthony Watmough, 15 Andrew Fifita, 16 John Sutton/Josh Reynolds, 17 Trent Merrin.

Kurt Gidley has been ruled out with a foot injury, with a replacement to be named on Tuesday. Both Josh Reynolds and John Sutton have been called up and Laurie Daley will make his decision which one will play this week.


Queensland:
1 Billy Slater, 2 Darius Boyd / Justin O’Neill, 3 Greg Inglis, 4 Justin Hodges, 5 Brent Tate, 6 Johnathan Thurston, 7 Cooper Cronk,
8 Matt Scott, 9 Cameron Smith (c), 10 David Shillington, 11 Nate Myles, 12 Sam Thaiday, 13 Ashley Harrison.
Interchange: 14 Corey Parker, 15 Matt Gillett, 16 Ben Te’o, 17 Chris McQueen.
18th/19th Men: Daly Cherry-Evans / Josh Papalii

Justin O’Neill has been placed on stand-by for Darius Boyd, who picked up an ankle injury in the Warriors match on the weekend.

Mal Meninga tried to get Blake Ferguson to play for QLD according to Blake.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/nsw-state-of-origin-debutant-blake-ferguson-reveals-queensland-coach-mal-meninga-approached-him-to-play-for-maroons/story-fni3fqyo-1226651720784

They tried to do a Greg Inglis and Israel Folau again.
Caught in the act of trying to smuggle a young player across the border and ensure he plays his first pro match in the Qld Cup.

Who's playing 9 for NSW LB ?

Kenny wrote:Who's playing 9 for NSW LB ?

Sorry mate, .... Robbie Farah.
With Gidley out, Greg Bird moves into the starting 13 and Sutton and Josh Reynolds have now been called up and will fight it out for the interchange spot.

cheers LB

i can't wait for next wednesday

come on you BLUES !!!!

The tension is already building up here.

They've had a few pundits on TV already saying the Blues are "deservedly slight favourites".

Thurston is on standy-by... his wife is expecting a baby around June 5. He seems more worried about the timing of 'it'... and whether he'll be free to play. Honestly... of all the mind games... that surely has to take the cake.

I was at the Dogs-Broncos game last Friday night and was looking at all the empty seats... trying to visualise all those blue hairdos.

Well i shall have my wig on

I am a Queensland supporter, and for the last couple of years Ive always felt that somehow the Maroons could always pull a win out of the fire, and win the series.

I dont have that feeling this year.

On a side note I heard an interview over the weekend with Wayne Bennett(he was over here with Newcastle) and he was saying that State of Origin is the pinnacle of rugby League on the planet.

It's very intense. I'd put it above an NRL Grand Final both in terms of intensity and atmosphere at the ground.

Some idiot at NSWRL tweeted the wrong player as the chosen replacement for Kurt Gidley. They said it was John Sutton... but had to embarrassingly apologise to him when in fact it was Josh Reynolds who got the nod.

What did John Sutton have to say about that?

Haven't seen him respond yet.
They had some footage of him walking around with his head down but that could have been days/weeks/months ago?

I went to set my sky+ box up this morning to record the first game and series link it only to find sky aren't showing the games this year ...............so wont be able to watch it

You know there's a SB comp going on? Had to explain it to a few Saffas.

Pool: Chronicles of Origin
Code: nearbelt

Check out Oumasewopskietpap... first post in the banter section.

Kenny wrote:I went to set my sky+ box up this morning to record the first game and series link it only to find sky aren't showing the games this year ...............so wont be able to watch it

Just read this properly. No!
Surely, they will have it on at some stage... maybe delayed a few hours?

nope sky are showing the Lions tour and the junior internationals .

SoO is on ppv here

by the way i had a look ....................nice picture

Amazing record. Did you see all the 'Pool Champions'?

Premier Sports has the rights to the origin games this year, I was debating getting and cancelling after the first free month but its a 12 month subscription before you can cencel

gazzyD wrote:Premier Sports has the rights to the origin games this year, I was debating getting and cancelling after the first free month but its a 12 month subscription before you can cencel

If i find a stream i will pm you it gazzy

They interviewed JT and Cameron Smith last night on Sterlo.

Both had cheeky smiles and said Big Mal would most likely go with the same game plan that won them the last 7 series.

gazzyD sent you a pm

So can you get it on a stream?

Hasn't stopped raining here on Sunday. Maybe swings it a little in the Blues favour?

fingers crossed

Just realised this match is on at the same time as the Lions-Force match. Bugger... but this game is more important to me.

LB you are allowing for the time difference arent you?

Yes I am but it says k.o. in Perth is 20:00 EST... same as Origin. I hope it is WST, that would enable me to catch the last 20 mins or so.

Anyway, it will be replayed (the Force match) the next day... Game 3 Eng-NZ/ and the IRB Junior C'ships - Australia-Ireland is on late Wednesday / early Thursday.

Will it be replayed somewhere? Or will it be a YouTube job afterwards?

if you have a look on the there are ways to watch it apparantly , which i am hoping to do ( fingers crossed )

just can't tell what on here as it breaks site rules

Less than 5 hours to go.

I'm going earlier to escape the stampede and watch the U16 curtain raiser match.

Couldn't get any of the streams to work

New South Wales 14 v Queensland 0 (Half Time)

New South Wales 14 - 6 Queensland after 62 mins

New South Wales 14 - 6 Queensland Fulltime

The Blues take a one nil series lead

It was a great evening all in all. The U16 NSW side won 30-0.

The intensity of the Blues overwhelmed the Maroons. Even though they seemed to have a worse completion rate - they had more ball and got those early points on the board. Silly play from Gallen (he didn't miss!) - he'll get suspended again but I guess the message from the whole team was the same in a way. They tackled like demons and simply smothered Qld up until the last 20 mins or so. I started to see our blokes drop off slightly (no wonder... impossible to keep that up) and Qld getting over the gainline more easily. Had me worried but the bloke next to me was more confident. Some crazy fans screaming out non-stop. I was too... voice feels a bit raw now.

The atmosphere at the ground was amazing. 80,380 was the crowd. The Blatchy's Blues sounded so intimidating with their chant. I don't know if they showed it but the 2 mascots were mucking around in front of them and some idiot jumped onto the field and was pounced on by half a dozen police.

Qld will obviously regroup and it wouldn't surprise me if they won up at Suncorp. NSW to me are still not playing like the great sides of years gone by. Still too many unforced errors... lucky they were not severely punished. We need a couple of players back if we're going to win the series comprehensively but I've a feeling it will be 1-1 and it will all come down to the 3rd Game again.

I accidentally got corralled onto the wrong platform on the way home and ended up having to catch a city bound train which was packed like sardines. Got off at Strathfield and then had to catch another train back 4 stops to my new station. It was quite a fun trip... lots of happy faces and the odd sullen Q'lander. We're all mates really though!

sounds like you had a good night

I shall be looking for the match on youtube later

I'm delighted that the Blues won, but i do think Paul Gallen should have been sent off.

My missus is filthy about Paul Gallen.

Looks like you had a good night LB, well done.

Tell the missus that the rules are different for these games. Don't worry... there will be payback. Just heard a long discussion on the radio. The next game will have the largest audience ever here and is expected to be a bloodbath. (well, that's what all the pundits are saying)

I just dont get this, how can a team be so completely beaten two weeks ago, come out and play so well tonight, it was as if Scott and Thaiday went through some biological change.

26 . 6

Obvious , isn't it ?

Kevin Rudd has already started to make a difference

very clever Alfie.

NSW poked the Bear in the first game .........................and the Bear woke up in this one .

I think Kevin Rudd spurred them on.

Huge day for Australian politics and a bigger day for Qld.

They were so relentless... especially in that first 20 mins.

big day on here with the posting return of LB , far out weighs any pm appointment

The 3rd SOO game will attract more media and public interest than any other sports event in Australia this year by a country mile. Forget the Melbourne Cup, forget the Lions tour, forget this years Cricket ashes series in Australia this year. This 3rd SOO game in Sydney is the big one.

George Hotel1895 wrote:The 3rd SOO game will attract more media and public interest than any other sports event in Australia this year by a country mile. Forget the Melbourne Cup, forget the Lions tour, forget this years Cricket ashes series in Australia this year. This 3rd SOO game in Sydney is the big one.

Its going to be war.

I'm on the Lions tour and watched the game in The Imperial in Melbourne (I like watching league too). Great atmosphere in the pub + some good ale.

That was a pretty comprehensive win by QLD. NSW didn't seem to have much of a clue as to how to get through the QLD defence whenever they got near the try line.

More innovation needed from the boys in blue in the decider.

Good to see you down in the League thread Hound, (its not a bad place to hide out while the dust settles, if youve been in a fight up in the union thread).. but anyway League is a game thats won by the yardage gained by the props, to get their team to the tryline, when that queensland spine of 1,6,7,9, attack the line,they are impossible to stop, they are best in the World of League.

Off to the casino tonight to watch SOO3 in the warriors lounge.