NSW lost yet another Origin series at Suncorp Stadium on Wednesday night when Queensland scored a 26-16 victory, following a 6-4 game one win earlier this month.
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He played just seven minutes in the opening match.
“The solution (to winning Origin games) is having leadership in your playmaking positions, fellas that take ownership of the result at crucial periods of the game”, Gould said.
“We’ll look at our draw, the sports science and Global Positioning System as well as all the data that comes from their training loads. and where we are on the table helps when you’re planning to rest one or two of them”, Flanagan said.
Gould has long called for Gallen to be excluded from the Blues and indicated he felt Farah’s time was done too.
“For me Gal is playing really well”.
I know we tried it for a year in 2014 and the Blues faithful carried on like pork chops, but it could be the only thing that rescues the game. “We don’t let our mates down”, Maroons skipper Cameron Smith said.
NSW’s most successful coach Phil Gould laid blame for the Blues’ continued State of Origin failures upon the “selfishness” of Blues team leaders Paul Gallen and Robbie Farah.
In front of 50,000 screaming Maroons fans, expect Parker, who is $11 with Ladbrokes, to have a blinder and cap his final Origin appearance on home soil with a huge game.
“It’s always been about a few individuals and not about the state and the team and it’s no good sugar-coating the bitter pill”.
“It’s been a disruptive week in a sense, but I want Origin players in our club”, Flanagan said.
“I reckon you could ask the 17 other players that we’ve got in there, not one of them will say he’s a selfish player”.
“I am sure we will keep that private though”. “They’re a group of players that always puts the team first”, Daley said on NRL 360.
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“If there’s a better person or captain than this country’s seen than the bloke sitting beside me, someone better identify them”, Walters said in the post-match press conference.
