MAL Meninga and Gene Miles played eight games together in the centres in State of Origin. It just seems like more. But does Greg Inglis split them up in your selection in The Courier-Mail’s all-time greatest Origin team? Because of Miles’ 1985 knee operation and Meninga breaking his forearm four times, 1983 and 1986 were the only
THE fans have spoken. State of Origin ticket prices are too dear. It’s the reason why more than 9000 remain unsold for Origin I. It’s not our bloodsucking Federal budget or, perish the thought, local fans have grown tired of beating the Blues. Or that people expected it to be a sellout. Read more at
THE Gold Coast Titans will contest Greg Bird’s grade three dangerous throw charge in order to have it downgraded at the NRL judiciary on Wednesday night. Bird was placed on report and subsequently charged for the throw on Bryson Goodwin which occurred in the 60th minute of Saturday night’s loss to the Rabbitohs. If the… Read More
If the allegations against Mitchell Pearce are proved and he is rubbed out of the opening State of Origin match, NSW is likely to have a new five-eighth as well as halfback when the team is announced next Tuesday. After last week imposing two-match bans on Blues under-20s players Mitchell Moses and Matt Lodge, the
A NOSTALGIC journey back to the 1980s has convinced Paul Vautin that warhorse Greg Dowling would be the first prop chosen in his State of Origin dream team. “Dowling was just a bloody great player … in any era,’’ said Vautin, himself a contender for a back-row berth in The Courier-Mail’s Team of The Century in celebration
IF DALE Shearer is going to make the starting team for Queensland’s greatest State of Origin side, it’s going to be on the wing. The trouble with having the versatility to have started for Queensland in four different positions, as well as played five games of the bench, is that it prevented Shearer from calling
SHATTERED NSW enforcer Greg Bird will decide whether to risk his entire State of Origin series after becoming the face of the NRL’s crackdown on lifting tackles. In yet another bombshell to rock NSW coach Laurie Daley, Bird will miss both Origin I and Origin II unless he successfully fights a dangerous throw charge. The
THE QRL has publicly called on Maroons fans to save the 100th State of Origin game from the sight of empty seats at Suncorp Stadium, with almost 10,000 tickets still unsold. The QRL and NRL is almost a week into an impromptu marketing campaign to emphasise to the public that the May 28 game is
The 1991 State of Origin series was made for a bloke like NSW’s David ‘Cement’ Gillespie. Tight, tough and a bloody battle to the final whistle in the final game, this was the end of Wally Lewis’s reign and the start of genuine respect between the old enemies. Here, the old Blues warrior remembers a… Read More
LET’S assume the worst. Partying in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, a late night indiscretion has ruled Mitchell Pearce out of State of Origin. The man who was to steer the NSW side to their first Origin success in nearly a decade is out of calculations and the NSW halfback jersey is vacant. What are Laurie Daley’s
