Fighting for his future, Brad Fittler’s team might have ended his reign with a petty brawl which resulted in two send-offs and a sin-bin and a hooker playing completely out of position.
Damien Cook is standing in a part of the field where he wouldn’t really know, and a ball is whizzing his way. He knows on his outside is Josh Addo-Carr, the fastest man on the planet, and a patch of green grass he will cover in a few milliseconds.
If this is the end for Brad Fittler, it is the call which will live with NSW fans for a long time; a hooker playing almost an entire Origin game at centre, busting his backside in a position he’s never started at in the NRL, while spending all week planning to bombard Queensland through the middle with two running No.9s.
For the second straight year, Queensland coach Billy Slater won an Origin series. Fittler has lost two in a row. It followed the same script from game one in Adelaide, NSW having enough ball to win three games and not doing nearly enough with it to win one.Mercifully, Cook scored their only try when the result was beyond doubt, the rugby league gods laughing at us in a way they only can.
Queensland led 10-0 at the break, and it was deja vu from Adelaide. NSW had most of the ball, and mostly came up with nothing.
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