Blake Austin

Saying all the right things, Zaney.

There has been a lot of chat about Laurie Daly.

Bulldog Richie is about the only guy that's come out to defend him and probably defended him in a way that probably made things worse than better.

He probably said three or four sentences too many.

We were sort of starting to buy into the idea that he'd been harshly

and then he just kept going and going and going.

But I like Mitch.

Mitch has to get behind the coach if he's going to go and try and win a game for the state in game three.

These are the things he has to be saying.

I do think that their game plan needs sharpening up, and if they can do that, they can certainly go and win at Suncorp Stadium.

What do you reckon, mate?

What do you reckon, Blake?

That's all they can do.

Like, if Laurie is good enough to get them to victory, then go and win.

I think we've seen on... Look, he looks out of his depth.

As hard as it is to say, I think a lot of the criticism has been fair.

I struggle...

any team that has nathan in it and nathan can't perform at his best i question the game plan i know that um you know there's other things that you can question but um like i think billy slater's shown us what what an origin coach is now it's a lot more than a man manager it's a lot more than a man motivator you need genuine plans and and you need your team on the same page to execute that so uh look i love that mitch is back in his coach it's what you have to do i mean

talk about pr these are the things he has to say he doesn't have an option to say anything different um so i don't think it's anything groundbreaking in that in that respect but i get the sentiment as well like there has to come a time where we say hey come on we wish you all the best let's go get it done so

I mean, we get to talk about Origen for another two weeks because we get a decider.