James Tedesco scores a last-gasp try for NSW Blues in State of Origin, securing a 22-20 comeback win over Queensland. The try, coming with 32 seconds left, evokes memories of his 2019 series-deciding heroics.
“Scriptwriters,” Tedesco laughs. “Not me. I just do what they tell me to do. ” Watch every game of every round of the Premiership Season LIVE with no ad-breaks during play on FOX LEAGUE, available on Kayo Sports |WHAT'S GAMBLING REALLY COSTING YOU?
Set a deposit limit. For Free and confidential support call 1800 858 858 or visit gamblinghelponline.org.au. Those with long enough memories haven’t forgotten the other time Tedesco scored a last-gasp NSW try at the northern end of Accor Stadium was in the 2019 series decider. It sealed an epic series, prompting then Blues coach Brad Fittler to run onto the field with unfiltered joy, dancing in front of the crowd.
Tedesco’s try came with 32 seconds left. So often on the receiving end of such heroics, the Blues put a massive picture of Tedesco scoring up in their state-of-the-art gym across the road from Accor Stadium.
Next to it were big numbers: 79:28.after his miraculous leap and put down sealed NSW’s 22-20 comeback win over Queensland “That’s just competing on every play and that’s what Origin is about. It comes down to those last moments. Those standards are what I hold myself to. If I do that long enough, then I come up with moments like that.
“It was a surreal feeling coming down with that ball somehow. I was just so happy and excited. I blew one earlier and I was ropeable at myself. I thought I’d make up for it somehow and I’m glad I came down with that one.
” Anyone who has watched Tedesco over his stellar career shouldn’t really be surprised. But it was his first Origin game for two years, and as the oldest player on the park, he was still coming up with the game’s defining moment. Of all the calls Blues coach Laurie Daley had to make before game one, who would be his fullback was the most contentious: incumbent Dylan Edwards or Tedesco?
Many predicted he couldn’t go wrong, but Daley begrudgingly admitted Tedesco won the nod due to his ever so slight edge in attack. How right he was. Loz credits Cleary for Greatest comeback | 12:59“I think being away from it, I didn’t really think too much about it,” Tedesco says.
“I was just content with watching at home. “But being back here around some of the best players in the game, it made me realise how much I missed it, I think. I’ve loved it all week.
“With Nath and Mitch as roomies all week, we’ve just been talking about footy, golf, but mainly the game. I’ve really enjoyed it. ”It wasn’t the happiest night for Tedesco until his final contribution, ultra safe under the high ball in defence, but a victim of Harry Grant’s genius for two of Queensland’s first three tries which came from early kicks via Sam Walker and Cameron Munster. Fine, sure.
But Tedesco is rarely just fine, and waited until the last to prove so again as man of the match Nathan Cleary launched one last Hail Mary into the night sky at Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow, filling in at fullback for Kalyn Ponga, who was sent off in the second half.
“I said to , ‘put it up straight’,” Tedesco says. “I told him a few times and I think we got a penalty twice because they kept getting in my way. “He put it on the money and it was great timing to get up for it when the ball was coming down. I turned around and it was in my lap.
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