Origin 3 REACTION | NSW SHOCKS QLD, TRY CONTROVERSY ERUPTS & CLEARY STEALS THE SHOW!

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How did New South Wales pull off the shock win in Game 3 at Suncorp?

Cooper Johns 0:00
Never in doubt.
Matty Johns 0:01
Well, aren't you walking a little taller? Have a look at you.
Cooper Johns 0:06
Well, Matthew, if you were solely responsible for getting a whole state up emotionally, you'd probably feel the same as me.
Matty Johns 0:16
Well done, Braveheart. Well done to you. You did it at the Melbourne Storm. You used to do those inspirational speeches. They won a competition, and look what you've done in Game 3.
Cooper Johns 0:27
They said he couldn't do it, Loz. And I'm glad that he put his ego to the side and he called in someone who, you know, controversially called me in to help, you know, freelance motivation.
Matty Johns 0:38
Yes.
Cooper Johns 0:39
It's a thing, brother. It is. And can I just say, who would have, after all the controversy for the last six weeks, the selections, people saying Cam Murray had to start, we said it as well. Yep. And we said, I think me and you said last week, All of it, everything, the selection blunders, the interchange, none of it matters if you just win the game.
Matty Johns 1:01
That's it. Now we said it. Eliminate everything. If you actually just eliminate everything, and then even when it comes to the game, if you eliminate everything and just focus on the simplicity, play direct, just play nice and straight and direct, win the speed of the play of the ball – defend well, put Nathan into regular attack kick positions, then you win. It's like you get there sometimes. You get going into big games when you want to cause an upset. Simplicity wins over complexity all the time. Yeah. And that's the way it went. I'm really happy for Laurie as a bloke. He, one of the, to his detriment, Laurie never, he never promotes himself, or other coaches do. And oftentimes coaches, nearly all coaches have got a journalist or two in their pocket, you know, who defends them and everything.
Matty Johns 1:52
Yeah, yeah. Like Loz just goes solo.
Cooper Johns 1:54
And they ate him apart. At different stages during the year, during the series, there was different parts where you could see that. It was almost like a carcass of a whale in the ocean and every shark come to have a little bit of a bite. And I imagine it weighed on Loz at some stages, but he'd be in the sheds right now as we're recording this going, you fucking beauty.
Matty Johns 2:17
well the thing about it is uh some of the some of the criticism you can critique without getting personal you know the interchanges you may have an opinion or maybe think he should go in maybe it should play that way you know that's you know for journalists and and you know former players that's your job but what happens sometimes a lot of it's starting to get really personal and whatnot and you know he you know he can't coach and he can't get the side up and that sort of stuff and that's when it just gets personal and for Laurie I think this series one of the things in this series was about basically getting the respect that he deserved the same respect he had as a player and he's done that all's well that ends well and it has and
Matty Johns 2:57
And they were really good. He should be congratulated on in going through the tough calls that he made, some calls that were surprising, some calls that were unpopular. Yeah. You know, like, say, keeping Tedesco, you know, and saying, no, I'm going to hang in there, I'm going to keep him. Going, keeping Mitchell Moses and the Six, as opposed to Eason Strange, those big ones. It became clear in the game, when we spoke about going in, about Nathan, and we said, okay, he's gone with Mitchell. Even though Mitchell was really poor in that last game against Parramatta, for Parramatta, and he, against South Sydney, his defensive roots, it was obviously still a fair way off being right. And everyone thought, okay, he's completely estranged.
Matty Johns 3:40
When he kept Mitchell, we said, he's obviously spoke to Nathan. I don't know how you are to him about what he wants. You do that with your best player. And Nathan's obviously gone for Moses, and you can see early why that was because Mitchell was doing the long kicking. All the kicking, yeah. Nathan was doing the attack kicks. Yeah. That was that combination. So it was a really good result. Simplicity, the style of football.

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