Paul Kent

He said, I have to prepare them for it, which is what I'm doing.

He said, so we won't do it, but if New South Wales do it – yeah, I know where you're going.

If New South Wales do it, then we'll do it.

Now, Queensland did it from the start.

Of course, they were always going to, right?

But they did that.

But my point to that is –

Origin is won by those little one percenters.

Jeff Fennec used to say, I'm not the world champion because I do one thing 100% better than anybody else.

He said, I'm the world champion because I do 100 things 1% better.

And those little one percenters are what Queensland nail every time.

They very rarely get that wrong.

And that's what New South Wales got wrong, just winning the ruck, the speed around the ruck.

I said, well, a couple of days ago, I can't remember if it was Monday or Tuesday, that

I thought the client would let it run like an old-fashioned game where he wouldn't be blowing the pee out of the whistle because with all the noise around him at the moment, the last thing he wants is to become the focal point, so he was just going to put the whistle in the pocket.

That's exactly what he did.

That's exactly what Queensland looked like they were prepared for, and they played that way.

Their ability to slow down New South Wales at the ruck, there were times there both sides could not get out of their own quarter

Because the defensive lines were moving so quick.

But Queensland endured so much better.