NRL 2025
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Big kick coming up.
At 26-10, and I was saying it to myself, why did QLD not go for 2?
At 26-6, why did QLD go for a short dropout?
Will these calls come back to bite them?
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NSW have kicked 2 from 8 this series.
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Big finish coming up.
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Haas knocks on! QLD should hold on.
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Does Paul Gallen speak English?
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well, @booboo doing a sparky on a game thread he didn't even like was a waste of 25 posts.
Incredible game of league. Conditions were absolutely shithouse weren't they? The quintessential game of two halves. In the first half Qld didn't make errors, and played on the front foot, allowing their halves to dominate. In the 2nd NSW minimised the errors, stopped giving away thuggy penalties, while Qld made error after error. And so we end up with a close game.
First half started weirdly, with a couple of errors each, but NSW on the board with a bit of a lucky try. After that Qld took over. They ran hard, hit really hard, and that allowed Munster and Dearden to play down hill. NSW were very lucky not to get two guys in the bin, and i imagine at least Luia will get a stint on the sidelines. Lomax whacking Loiero was a double bonus, as it gave a penalty and took Trent out of the game. 26-6 was an amazing half time score.
2nd half was the complete opposite, NSW tidied their discipline up, played to their strengths and really got stuck in, while Qld went completely to pieces. Error after error, 6-agains, stupid short drop outs, bad reads on defense over and over again. The 2nd half was how i (and possibly NSW) expected the whole game to go.
In the end there was no sense of joy, either on my couch, or in the Qld camp. They probably should have lost that given the goal kicking woes. Still, we get an unexpected decider, and there were serious signs of life out of Qld.
