Billy the man: Slater back to haunt Blues in epic Origin upset | app85
With each passing day, the whispers south of the Tweed this past week have grown to a quiet roar: the bloke now coaching Queensland is pretty damn good at a caper he’d never tried before.
This was Origin as Slater knew it, and how every NSW fan wished they never knew it, as the Maroons won in Sydneywith a famous 16-10 victory after Isaah Yeo was dragged down inches from the line on the last play of the night. At one stage, his team looked like they were going to play with just two reserves for the final 26 minutes when teenage rookie Jeremiah Nanai left the field in agony with an ankle injury.Slater had Queensland exactly where he wanted them - and then Nanai miraculously reappeared shortly thereafter.
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