Queensland coach Billy Slater has dismissed suggestions that his side’s preparations have been ‘too smooth’ as they try to defy a poor Game Two record and wrap up this year’s Origin series.
Queensland enter Game Two with a smooth preparation far unlike some of the challenges they endured last year with COVID and injuries forcing a number of disruptions. Captain Daly Cherry-Evans wasn't buying the"seamless" tag as a worry for the side, however, and dismissed suggestions it would play a part in the result.
“That’s just one perception of it, we are certainly not viewing it as a seamless camp, it’s Origin,” Cherry-Evans said when prompted for a comment on if their preparations had been “too seamless” for their liking. “If you are looking at it as a seamless transitioning from one game to the next, you are kidding yourself because you are going to sell yourself very short to what’s going to happen out there on Wednesday night.
“We have been training at a level of intensity that we feel is going to give us a good chance of winning on Wednesday night. “We have had to make a few changes through injury, so it’s not as if we are just rolling out the same side again. We have got the new boys up to speed and we’ve just tried to apply ourselves at training.”
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