Houlie ease up mate, lets not turn every thread into a chance to blue.
Now we wait first or second week next month the block buster third final deciding game.
For the two states a big deal others?
208mm rain looks to be ending ,nearly, others got twice that roads and bridges closed some for a week.

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/state-of-origin/death-of-a-dynasty-as-the-ageing-maroons-enter-origins-twilight-zone-20110616-1g65a.html
This link tells AFL players what the fuss is all about.
And may upset some QLD supporters,remember how ever just what has been said, in the name of sport,in your Medea.
Roy Masters is a football brain.
A former coach of many teams including Western Suburbs in Sydney.
Let the detractors say as they wish, our game was once a hard fist on heads game.
Masters ruled in those days, one of his team got 18 months out of the game for hitting people.
Roy took on with his wests, Manly, a beach side seen to be better place to live team in his constructed battle of the Fibros, housing more in tune with government homes, Vs the toffs.
He trained his team , probably a stunt, to stand face to face and slap each other a warm up.
Masters is no super coach, but he has been one of our best an ex school teacher his brain and understanding of the game stood out ,worth a read.

AH but the thread is not dead,for those in both states the final early next month will set the blood running.
A QLD and Australian star is unable to play.
Yet, hurts to say it, a true Cane Toad useless for anything,becomes a star on putting that jumper on.
Only NRL fans have seen that chanting group of players running on to the field shouting they are QUEENSLANDERS.
NSW just maybe ends that for a decade this time.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/sport/qld-stokes-conspiracy-theory-over-johnathan-thurston-judiciary-charge/story-e6frg7mf-1226079897144
This is no game for our northern brothers.
It is blood sweat and Hate mixed and rolled about .
Here we see it may as well be hash cookies.
You get a chance to ignore the ref on the ground, the laws of the game, the fact JT has left over penalty points from last years matches.
Queenslanders will tell you they can See a Halo over JTs head, and Satan on the NSW jumpers
this will not how ever stop them giving every thing they have in a game made for hurt.

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/gus-warns-blues-to-watch-out-for-the-sucker-punch-20110629-1gr14.html
AFL followers may understand the Passion but never the rivalry.