Why Queensland are Comeback Kings
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Read The NRL’s Justin Hodges’ full story here
IF QUEENSLAND are trailing 16-10 with 10 minutes to go next Wednesday night in the Origin decider, every player in that team will have the belief that they are going to find a way to come back and win the game.
That’s just the culture that this team has been built upon ever since Origin began.
I have to admit that sitting on the couch and watching Game Two, halfway through the second half I thought they were gone.
The Blues were dominating and I think all Queensland supporters were thinking they were going to run away with it like they did in Game One but for some reason they went into their shell and away from everything they believed in previously.
When Queensland turned them away a couple of times they probably lost some belief that they could put points on and when Josh McGuire made that break for Dane Gagai’s try you could see the mindset of the Blues players change.
Their heads started to drop and the Queensland boys started to lift. They had that belief back and that was the turning point
I thought we were gone but once we got that second-last try I thought it was game on again and that we could win it.
That was one of the greatest comebacks I’ve seen from any Queensland side. To have all that adversity against them, to have Johnathan Thurston out there with one arm, that was one of the greatest Queensland comebacks of all time.