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| Melbournes Influence on State Of Origin; opinion | |
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| Topic Started: Jul 16 2010, 08:28 PM (154 Views) | |
| ravndal15 | Jul 16 2010, 08:28 PM Post #1 |
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First of all . This rubbish about other clubs cheating is ludicrous. I have not seen in resent years any club being able to keep multiple star players at there clubs as good as Melbourne does. Second of all i believe the ripple spreads into State Of Origin. Over previous years Melbourne have dominated the game with there players bustling with confidence. When you have multiple star individuals on a team defending them becomes a harder task. Not to mention the younger junior players being inspired by there leaders to become confident strong and dominate themselves. This is how Melbourne built there team from the start of there cheating until they became clinical with there talent where they just held every team down. And as I mentioned this effect also rippled into State Of Origin... How many Melbourne stars and regular players have made the Queensland side each year. These players have been picked every year which results in Queensland also becoming dominate. This dominance doesn't happen usually within the first year but keep picking these great players when the other team has none and wham, you have a dominate team. Which N.S.W regular club have players that look the class as Melbourne (slater , Inglis, smith , plus Crocker and Folau, Plus the handful of other players).When these players became a dominate force in regular league over a period of 2 years or more there confidence was injected into the Queensland side. I have not seen any club from the N.S W team with multiple stars for more then 3 years or so becoming the bench mark year in and year out , Manly , Parra ,Dragons and who the panthers running well this year. So then you have the junior players being sold from these N.S.W clubs who shine for a year because there clubs cant keep them anymore . But Melbourne could and they did it year in and year out. They become superstars not just stars . They continue being picked for Queensland . Who on the back of that build there team around them also . Players like Darren Lockyer have a field day with that talent around him. I'm not saying all of this is complete as a result of this cheating but i certainly think it's played it's part. And i think Queenslands 5 year record has a dark cloud hanging over it which has been unseen. |
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| stacey | Jul 23 2010, 07:45 AM Post #2 |
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Good points in there
I agree with you on that, it's played a part alright. And now that you mention this "ripple" effect, maybe that could have had a hand in queensland being so dominant lately, while it has made queensland look good, on reflection, if it is because of one club cheating, then things don't look the same to me now. I never actually thought of it that way until you mentioned it here. Good post... |
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