Hoffman: Beau knows how to stop JT
Dan Walsh, nrl.com
Blues second-rower Ryan Hoffman has backed former high school teammate Beau Scott as the man to stop Johnathan Thurston in his tracks when the Origin series kicks off next Wednesday.
Thurston has been the single greatest constant in Queensland’s eight-year dominance of the Origin arena, and will take the field at Suncorp in arguably career-best touch, leading the NRL for try and line break assists with 14 and 13 in each category.
Charged with keeping Queensland’s most devastating attacking weapon under wraps is the 30-year-old Knights enforcer – who coincidentally lined up alongside Hoffman in his final year at famed western Sydney nursery St. Gregory’s College Campbelltown.
