Paul Kent
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Appearances Over Time
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It's stupid.
And I think at some point, the New South Wales Rugby League, and again, I'm talking like they've already lost the series, okay?
But I'm talking through disappointment.
Right.
But the New South Wales Rugby League, yeah, we were talking this morning and you brought up to me that last year they promised a full review of how they lost the series after being up 1-0.
Now, all that's happened, the only change, certainly from the outside, that's happened is they've moved from the Blue Mountains to the Central Coast.
So the weather's a bit better.
I don't know what else has happened.
Yeah, and look, I don't know, but I think New South Wales, if they lose this series, areβ¦
basically at a point where they needed to go back when Wayne Bennett came in in 2001 after Queensland got embarrassed in that 56-16 game.
Now, let's remember this game last night was the second highest scoring game in Origin history behind that 56-16 game.
When New South Wales beat Queensland at the Olympic Stadium.
That was the hand grenade night, okay?
Now, this is the second highest point scored ever, and 44 of them belonged to Queensland, right?
Now, after that game, Wayne was so embarrassed, he went to the Queensland Rugby League and said, give me the job, and he basically brought in the academy.
and they started teaching kids from a younger age, getting them in at 17s or whatever age, and bringing them through and getting them ready for origin football from a much earlier age, and they changed a lot of other things also in there that we haven't got time to go through.
New South Wales need a similar intervention.
They need someone to come in there now and say β because Laurie Daly is 1-5, Brad Fittler was 3-3 β
Majors of the Anomaly came in.
He won the one series he was in.