ANALYSIS: Call it complacency or whatever you like, the lesson the Blues were taught in 2020 is yet to sink in
The idea of the Blues losing didn't feel like a serious prospect until Valentine Holmes scored in the second half.
But then it shouldn't be all that surprising that this team succeeded under these conditions. Queensland's natural Origin habitat is as the despised, friendless underdog, the kind of underdog where only the 17 blokes in the jersey reckon they can get it done and, somehow, they find a way to do it. This win was like reading a Queenslander's fan-fiction, scrawled on the back of a Fourex coaster at the Caxton, and it's a story they never tire of telling.
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