It’s proven the ultimate troll of NSW throughout the Maroons’ decade and a bit of State of Origin dominance; that the Blues just don’t get Origin. So, after Sunday night’s series-clinching win, has the penny finally dropped south of the border?
“We’ve been saying for so many years that New South Wales just doesn’t get it, and they haven’t,” Campion said. “It has been a war cry of ours from a Queenslander point of view that they don’t get it. We’re talking about good guys and good culture, good on and off-field performances. But this year I think they’ve got it … unfortunately. They’ve picked a really good side, some good characters.”
Going back to Billy Moore’s comments about the Queensland philosophy of doing it for your mate, the Blues’ veteran five-eighth Jimmy Maloney made good listening at the post-match presser on Sunday night when asked about the talk out in the middle in the heat of battle, especially following James Roberts’ sin-binning.

“We just had to turn up for each other,” Maloney told the gathered media. “We knew what we had to do. We spoke about it beforehand; the match was never going to go to plan: it never does. Winning an Origin series is special, it’s hard to do for a reason.
“We said before the game there’d be things going against us. And that how we reacted to that and what we did would determine the result … We turned up for each other and we held on.”
Turning up for each other … So is this the turning point? Does NSW finally get Origin? We probably need to see a few more series wins from them for that theory to be proven outright. At least the attitude and philosophy has changed.
A catch cry like Billy’s “Queenslander” – a bluer version, of course - would be handy, too.

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