it’s the wetter weather killing hammies. 10/10 lateral movements on wet pitch exacerbates strain put on the hamstring. Lesser grip underfoot invites quick movement in hamstring to re-establish centre of gravity

Hammers and turbos and herbies, are we talking footy or cars 😂

Freddy saying animals don't get injuries is deranged, how many greyhounds and horses are put down every week for minor injuries?

How can they have the QLD coach talking about NSW selections in front of the most recent NSW coach. It must be torture for Freddy and Joey hahahahaha

Hahaha billy just sitting there licking he's lips

So glad Fittler is no longer the coach. He was more interested in how he looks on camera than actually coaching

And queensland are flourishing and full of depth! How convinient

The Queenslanders could field a team on crutches and they would still beat the Blues

Lol QLD missing players as well. Tino, Flegler, Ponga, Gilbert, Taulagi

Go watch Bevan French. His pass selection and running game is so lethal atm. NSW should consider him for 6.

Gotta be embrassing for Fitler sitting there discussing NSW when he and his staff calling it quites at the face of adversity last year.

Freddy has a point, 6 again, 6 again, 6 again leads to less stoppages in the game. Offside, ruck infringement, etc used to be a penalty and play stopped, 6 again means they keep going. Half the time I have no idea what the ref has seen because the game just keeps going.

Probably the way the game has changed also..Its more faster, less breaks due to the six again rule which is probably giving more stress to the body of players resulting in injuries imo..Could be other factors though.

Hey Freddy, my dog did an ACL busting down the sideline of the hallway to get to the front door.

Every year you hear Johns and Gould talking about a young guy going away and putting on 15 kg in the off season. 100 kg bodies playing on hamstrings made to support 75 kg bodies.

Freedie is off his head

Freddy would have everyone playing bare foot and stopping every 15mins for a stretch, yoga and reflexology session

Paul Kent on the bench

matt burton at 6

6. Burton 7. Hynes

Rest up boys no point rushing the recovery 😉

I lost a bet....$20 Turbo would be out for at least half the season by round 8........good to see he got to round 10....get well soon

7Moses-6Hynes, 3Crichton-4Best, 14Lomax, 1Dylan, 2To'o-5Fox 👌🏾

Freddy's origin coaching record

Animals conserve energy and only use when they need to. Hence why no injuries. They don’t hunt for fun and entertain. Athletes put their bodies to the limit weekly. Injuries will happen. Game is faster than it is 10 or so years ago.

Good players can feel pain sometimes theirs others out there who play origin arena just give them a Go coming from a Queenslander I love my origin 😎❤️❤️❤️

Ham strings, calves, pecs and biceps. A lot of players going down with cramp also which I haven’t seen in years. Would it have anything to do with all the wet weather? Either due to it leading to more fatigue and or difficulty getting going and changing direction ( in the case of pecs and biceps for defenders). I’ve followed league since the 70’s and the first time I became aware of a torn pec was Luke Bailey in the early 2000’s. Andrew Symonds’ playing cricket was the only bicep injury I was aware of in any sport now they’re regular in league. Have changing training techniques caused this increased susceptibility? Weight training really became a huge part of training in the early 90’s with the Raiders. They had a lot of great players regularly out for long periods but I don’t recall the nature of their injuries.

Luke Keary and Matt Burton

Actually a good take by Fitlet on stress and injuries. Never heard that one before

Moses or Hynes for 7 and Burton for 6.

If I were in Cleary or Tommy's shoes I would do everything I could do to get healthy for my club as oppose to Origin. Origin isn't that important. It's not. It's just a 3 game series that doesn't pay most of your bills in a nrl fiscal year..your club is your bread n butter, which is the truth that the media isn't going to say because they have to sell the series

Even if NSW’s team is made of players from NSW cup. If QLD win: “ QLD won this series against all odds”. If NSW win: “ so they should have won, they had the better team”.

Niko and Keary in the halves

i have found myself agreeing with gal over the last few years but he was injured a lot between origins didn't play sometimes at all between origins then just rocked up and was captain

Danica is gorgeous

Dont mind having Burton at 6, but Nicho at 7 doesnt fill me with confidence. No Cleary might have secured Teddys spot, him being ready as Captain, and his combo with Edwards (and Luai, who prob misses out now) was going to make it easier to finally move on from Teddy.

Unpopular opinion - Addin Fonua Blake (if eligible) starting Front Rower for NSW

Wighton if available and Hynes pretty obvious I’d say

Excuses already 😂

Gals origin record

1 Dylan Edwards 2 Taylan May 3 Stephen Crichton 4 Bradmen Best 5 Brian To'o 6 Matt Burton 7 Nicho Hynes 8 Payne Haas 9 Wayde Egan 10 Reagan Campbell-Gillard 11 Liam Martin 12 Haumolo Oloko'Atu 13 Josh Curran 14 Mitch Kenny 15 Keaon Kolomatangi 16 Spencer Leniu 17 Angus Crichton

hate to say this but maybe adopt the gridiron approach and telly commercials every 10 min would give players a 2 min break. But then would need to take out refs who call so many penalties that it is detriment to the game

75% of the roster ,what a delima

2024. Updated so we can have. NSW. SYDNEY. Going. Path. WA

1. EDWARDS 2. TOO 3. BEST 4. CRITTER 5. LOMAX 6. LUAI/ WIGHTON 7. HYNES 8. HAAS 9. API 10. RCG 11. OLAKAUATU 12. MARTIN 13. YEO 14. MCINNES/ ROBSON 15. ANGUS 16. STEFANO 17. TALAKAI

bring back sterlo 😋

Might be a good thing as NSW won't just try and play like Penrith. I'd rather Murray at lock over Yow for his faster play the ball, which gives a greater advantage then Yow's ball playing. Moses, if fit, is more unpredictable, which again I think is better for Origin. Don't get me wrong I'd love Cleary to be there, but Moses at 6 and Hynes at 7 would be a fairly decent combo.

Only the NSW selectors make the decision who can play who can't who will steer the ship for NSW Blues in origin 24 that's my question ❓ Queenslander 😎💞

Won't matter who the blues play, won't win anyway.

As a qlder, Moses / Hynes is much more dangerous than Cleary / Luai....10000% better, both have strong running games, can defend, eyes up footy and kicking games...and they never go missing during games

The NRL are trying to speed up the game and make it as interesting and trying to keep up with the AFL, and the faster they have sped up the game over the last 10 years, the more injuries the players get, why, because the game happens too fast and more accidents happen. Both games are different, please dont try to keep pace with the AFL, cause the game will lose.

Nicho

Why the obsession with Turbo? The bloke is injury prone yet every expert feels he is entitled to an automatic Origin Jersey. There are other players than this one bloke! Stop hyping up another NRL poster boy and throw your support behind another deserving player.

Blues gonna get flogged again

Sezer and Cody walker

The Blues!!!....Lose!!! 😂

Hahaha I can see this being used as an excuse when they lose again

turbo should never have been picked this series so thank goodness for that because a wasted pick bradmen and lomax without a doubt. poor management by panthers with cleary's hamstring as we've seen with turbo and latrell (not main reason he can't play) but you cant rush hamstring injuries as these 3 have. hynes should not be in this series. he's overrated. moses and burton.

Be like Queensland pick new players

5th😊

Now blues need to win with the worst blues team ever.

Moses at 7 and Hynes at 6

Queensland dominate Origin year after year generation after generation it's the Spirit of Queensland grass roots football 🏈 and for people of Queensland united loyal to our state it takes courage & strength it's not how good u are all takes is be confident how u control the ball teamwork and game plan thats whole reason we win origin Qld 😎❤️❤️❤️❤️

Who cares...queensland will win again😂

Sorry but Nicho Hynes is the most overrated player of all time. Dont pick him

NSW backline 1. edwards 2. to'o 3. Chriton 4. best 5. lomax 6. burton 7. lui ..... cant play Moses he'll break. aint no one else is there?

NSW making excuses once again. Clearly there's no "next man up" mentality