2019 State of Origin

Not just his shit passing but QLD desperately needed someone like Friend defending in the middle during a lot of the game.

 

Walker is always good in those situations but you obviously can't play desperation football unless you're desperate, you need halves to construct a game. NSW should've been up by more than 8 when they were dominating but their halves did nothing with the attacking possession they had and just got caught up in the frantic pace instead of being calm and applying pressure. Pearce always did that as well.

 

I thought Walker got injured or something, not that he was benched. I still don't know why Wighton was picked but if it was because he had doubts over Walker then obviously it should've been Walker who was on the bench and Maloney at 6. Walker's never played at that level and Cleary still barely has any experience and has to be full of doubt over his form, no wonder they folded with such little experience.

 

Mitchell will start playing good again now that he got a kick up the bum. Remember when he got dropped back to reserve grade and then started playing decent again. He'll repeat that pattern for his whole career, similar to Inglis, except now that he's an established player he''ll receive less criticism and therefore will have longer and longer lazy stints.