State of Origin Game 3 - Predictions - Eels Blogs

Coryn Hughes July 9, 2025 at 10:13pm

Same old for me I've never rated Laurie Daley as a coach.

I still don't believe picking a team fill of stars makes a better team.If the Morons can pick a 20 yr old rookie in Koia and a journeyman like Shibasaki in there centres pull guys like Capewell and Cotter on the edges and just bum rush the blues edges all night and they don't have a counter just tells me they got the wrong players and are tactically inept.

Cleary disappeared again when it mattered and that was it game shot for the blues.

Just to think Billy Slater can't coach your kidding me.In this series he made strategic selections dropped players and tactically pulled off and got his team to execute away from home after being down 1-0 in the series and Slater can't coach please.

It also doesn't say much for NSW administration either making these coaching hires.

Kurupt - Porn Addict, But I'm In Control > Coryn Hughes July 9, 2025 at 10:21pm

It took the blues 80 mins to realise they should kick behind the line.

Daley's game plan came straight out of BAs book.
EA > Coryn Hughes July 9, 2025 at 10:25pm
I can't believe how shit our gameplan was in attack.
- In the first couple minutes Critta put Shibasaki on his ass two times. We did not get Critta 1 on 1 with him again for the rest of the match.
- As you say QLD rushing in defence and we do not try something to counter it tilll the 80th minute with a grubber. Where the fuck was this?
- Only one time we gave Lomax a ball to compete on
- Max King starting an Origin game. WTF? Bloke has no aggression. Not even an origin player.
- Stefano only made the team cause of Bellamy. Terrel May?!?!?!
- When Luai and Cleary are struggling to create, having Edwards who has zero x-factor at fullback does not help.
- Last thing. I said it from the start. Get Yeo out of the fucking 13 jumper. The way he and Cleary attack is like Panthers. However origin is not fucking NRL intensiy. It does not work. Yeo is a bench prop in origin at best.
Moses knows how to put the players outside of him into better shapes and position with attacking ball. Luai played like that too when Moses was his 7. Today Luai tried playing similar to Cleary and it was awful. Luai is meant to be instinctive and that grubber in the 80th minute is meant to be how he plays. Cleary in origin is a fraud.

Genuinely people to ask if Cleary should ever play origin again? How many chances does the bloke want. His 4th decider and lost all of them. A GOAT in the NRL but fraud in origin. With Katoa emerging and Strange. Feel like its Moses and one of them for next year.
fake midget pseudoachondroplasia > Coryn Hughes July 9, 2025 at 10:27pm

So if Klein is fair and Lomax kicks a few goals in game 2, NSW win the series Slaters coaching and decisions would have been torn apart. NSW threw away the series in game 2 with help from Klein.

Luck played a big part for Slater with NSW putting in 2 very average performances for game 2 and 3. Slaters calls would be questioned just as many are questioning Daley with so many injured players, and the Cleary/Luai combo which doesn't work at Origin level. I would like to know their win loss record together.
- MeelK > fake midget pseudoachondroplasia July 9, 2025 at 10:50pm
  
  I think it's now 1 from 6.
- Graham polkinghorne > fake midget pseudoachondroplasia July 10, 2025 at 12:39am
  
  Yet Billy Slater is celebrating his 3rd series win. Of course he can coach.