For the first time since 2010, the Queensland Maroons were without Cooper Cronk, Billy Slater, Cameron Smith or Johnathan Thurston in their lineup when they met at the MCG on [...]

The Blues have really got nobody but themselves to blame after a dispiriting loss to Queensland on Wednesday night for the Origin decider. Despite the fact that New South [...]

The Blues have played their best game of football in ten years at Suncorp Stadium tonight, delivering their most decisive victory – perhaps their only really decisive [...]

Looking back on the first official State of Origin match, at Lang Park on July 8, 1980, it’s amazing how momentous and resonant it still feels. While New South Wales and [...]

There can be no doubt that 2016 marks a watershed year in State of Origin. Most immediately, 2016 has seen the debut of a swathe of players – James Tedesco, Tyson Frizell, [...]

Up until Game 3, this year’s Origin season hadn’t really brought the entertainment factor. For Blues supporters like myself, there was a sense that Queensland had finally [...]