Battle of Brisbane: No holds barred in Queensland’s onslaught | Andrew Webster
If you can’t beat them, bash them. And if you bash them hard enough, that might just be enough to secure the sweetest of upset victories.
If the Maroons couldn’t finesse their way to victory with Munster, they’d have to kick and scream and claw — or, in the case of Tino Fa’asuamaleaui, headlockThe immediate result was two Queenslanders, Selwyn Cobbo and Lindsay Collins, and one NSW player, Cameron Murray, taken from the field with concussion after four minutes.
It’s still difficult to work out how it all happened, but a starting point might be the avalanche of nervous errors from the Blues in a messy second half. Moments later, Collins was helped from the field after his head ricocheted into the back of Blues winger Daniel Tupou. It was carnage. His third kick, though, landed on the postage stamp he was aiming for in the in-goal. Jarome Luai raced through, stumbled but then had the patience and skill to ground the ball.
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