‘Sick and tired’ Gallen tees off over Origin fib ruining NSW

We need to get behind our state and support our team.

Everything’s so pro-Queensland at the moment! Yeah, they’ve done a great job in the second half of game two, but we were 40 minutes away from taking the series, and we led the game at half-time.

Everyone was saying how we shouldn’t have won game one and we only won it because Kalyn Ponga got sent from the field. The fact is he deserved to get sent.

Just because he got sent off didn’t mean Queensland had to lose the game. We fought our way back in. It didn’t make their wingers drop the ball. It didn’t make them miss one-on-one tackles.

We’ve earned the right to go to a decider, and as New South Welshmen, should be more positive and more supportive of our team and what they’ve done.

There’s so much talk at the moment about how good Queensland are and how good a job Billy’s done, and he’s done a great job.  

I’m not trying to take that away from him or them. I’m not even trying to be disrespectful towards them.

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I’m just trying to drum up support for our state to get behind our boys.

They’re going into an Origin decider, the biggest game you can play other than the grand final, in the most daunting environment you can go into.

And there’s been more talk about changes rather than getting behind the side.

I think changes will be made but I’m not sure how many. We need guys who have been there before and done it.

With Latrell out of selection, I think we need Ethan Strange in the side.

He can play centre, he got man of the match in the under-19s Origin game only three years ago playing in the centres.

He’s exactly like Laurie Daley, exactly like Brad Fittler, a big, strong, running five-eighth who can definitely play in the centres.

I’d be putting him in there with Stephen Crichton.

We should keep Mitch Moses in the team at six. Our kicking game with Mitch in the side is a lot better.

We’ve got the top two best ranked kickers in the competition. I think Liam Martin is also an absolute must. That’s only a few changes. I don’t think we need to make wholesale changes.

At the end of the day, it’s game three of an Origin series. To go and make wholesale changes, you’re almost starting again.

To be honest, whoever they pick can go on and win the decider, they just need to come together as a team.

There’s also been too much talk about Daley up north.

The fact that Queensland journalists come out and said that the Blues players don’t like Daly and they fall asleep in his talks is ridiculous.

No one was quoted, it’s just a totally made-up story and that’s the way they go on. And to think that we just sit back and let it happen - it shits me.

I don’t think anyone in the NSW team is against Daley.

And if there’s a bloke who plays in the New South Wales side that wants to go and talk about a coach like that - they’re a f-----g rat, and they should be outed.

I’m just sick and tired of the talk about our coach.

It’s gonna be probably the biggest game in history, so as a state we need to get behind our team and support them.

I’ve read people saying Queensland has been more dominant in the two games - cut the bullshit.

Queensland won the first half in game one. We won the second half in game one. We won the first half in game two. Queensland won the second half in game two. That’s 50/50. We’re right there.

We’ve got an opportunity to go to Queensland in the decider and win the match. Get behind the boys. Get behind Laurie Daley.

Daley’s on the list as one of NSW’s greatest ever players. The animosity towards our own people annoys me. It tends to happen a lot with us, but not so much with Queensland. We eat our own, and this is the problem.

The only opinions that matter on team selection and how the team plays is that of Laurie Daley and his coaching staff. So we can either sit back and shit-can it or we can get on the front foot and go and support them. I’m saying let’s get on the front foot and go and support them.

Look I understand, Origin was built on the back of Queensland in the beginning. But we keep allowing it to be all about Queensland. The media, players, everyone, we just keep allowing it to be all about Queensland.

This needs to change.