SoO 2017

lardbucket wrote:I'd be picking him even if one of his arms was severed ...

Can't happen. He has now officially retired from rep footy.

"I wanted to finish on a high this year with representative football, but it's not to be and I'm comfortable with the decision I've made to retire from rep football."

He has vowed to concentrate all his energy into his final year with the Cows in 2018.

Ah. I see that I NTRed on the other thread.

Hello. Here is the proper thread. I just want to say one thing.

QUEENSLANDER

I just can't believe it.

Thanks Wally. A complete shellacking of the poor old spivs.

I'm in Darwin at the moment. They're very happy with a QLD win. As am I. I even did a moonwalk in delight after the Wallace try which pissed Mrs K off more than the actual try.

That was, frankly, a piss poor effort from NSW by the way.

It was a fantastic result. Would only have been better if JT could have run on for the last couple of minutes ...

Fortunate to have been out on the Sydney fringes (Beyond Wisemans Ferry) for the past few days with FA phone and TV service. Congrats to the Maroons. No surprise that they locked up the series after stealing game 2.

What an opportunity lost by the Blues in game 2.

Make up for the shocking non decision in the decider last time they won it.

I think we're well overdue a reminder to our Dubber friends ... QLD won again. What a win.

Almost as much fun as when the Dubbers stumble out of the Shield. Mind you it's also pretty good when the Billies bomb out.

It really shows the limits of soo, where only one of the evil empires lose.

I'm reading this morning of the great "crime" of Dugan and Ferguson to go the pub 5 days before the decider

Surely the actual "crime" is that ONLY Dugan and Ferguson went to the pub

Hard to know what's better. The actual beating or the bleating that always follows.

Aye, Q. Doubly painful given the Blues should've won game 2, only for some Brayne Drayne selfishness (twice didn't pass to Brett Morris when unmarked) and some 2nd half stop-playing-because-we're-home-itis.

Blues should've been up 26-6 early in 2nd half. There would've been no trademark Qld miracle from there.

Bradman wrote:Hard to know what's better. The actual beating or the bleating that always follows.

One is but a momentary pleasure. The other lasts all year.

Winners are grinners.

skully wrote:Winners are grinners.

Surprisingly noble comment. The now perpetual failure of the roaches is one thing, their failure in the Shield another. Worryingly the Spivs are becoming the new perpetual failures of Oz cricket. Arguably the Barrels are now miles more competitive and even the Wobblies look they wont come last.

Hard to argue, h.

Ah c'mon Skully. Lift man! Make the case for the Drags, Spivs in the Shield Tahs in 4th grade social rugby.

Meh.

lardbucket wrote:

Bradman wrote:Hard to know what's better. The actual beating or the bleating that always follows.

One is but a momentary pleasure. The other lasts all year.

Actually I haven't heard any bleating in a week or more.