Game Two is likely to come down to a razor-thin margin and the Maroons’ ability to clinch matches is key to their dominance
match more than three decades ago but he has never forgotten the feeling. A handful of minutes left on the clock, a razor-thin margin on the scoreboard and the overwhelming pressure that comes with knowing only one team will walk off the field victorious.
Since Brad Fittler took hold of the Blues coaching reins in 2018, NSW have outscored Queensland 350 to 238, and yet each team has won eight matches. Six of the Maroons’ eight wins have been by six points or fewer, which doesn’t even include their epic 26-18 triumph in this year’s series opener, when they scored two tries in the final 10 minutes despite playing with only 12 men.
“It’s a little bit of flat-track bullies,” he says. “They all want the footy when it’s easy, you can’t get it off them, but when it’s tough and grinding, you wonder if they’re thinking, ‘I don’t want to put my balls on the line here’, whereas the Queensland blokes are thinking, ‘This is when we’re at our best’.”
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