DANE Gagai has ditched fast food and said bye-bye to burgers as the Queensland Origin flyer looks to stave off a challenge for his beloved Maroons jumper this season. Gagai’s focus is representative of the entire Maroons playing group, who now have a definite target to zero-in on following the announcement that this year’s State
FORMER Maroons greats say this year’s Origin series will become a survival of the fittest with the historic November campaign to present the ultimate mental and physical test for NSW and Queensland players. The coronavirus pandemic has forced the NRL to restructure the 2020 season schedule with the Origin series to be shifted from its
FOR the past month, Cameron Munster has been back on home soil in Queensland. The coronavirus pandemic has given the Storm and Queensland Origin star a chance to break from NRL training in Melbourne to reconnect with local folk in his hometown Rockhampton. It has been a grounding experience. In an NRL industry where players
QUEENSLAND skipper Daly Cherry-Evans is sweating on the future of State of Origin this season as the Maroons plot revenge following back-to-back series losses to the Blues. The coronavirus pandemic has not only thrown the NRL’s club season into disarray, it has cast a grey cloud over State of Origin, rugby league’s showpiece which turns
VALENTINE Holmes has issued an ominous warning to the Blues, admitting rugby league hasn't seen the best of him as the Queensland flyer looks to make a sizzling return to the Origin arena this season. After a 12-month absence from the game in his ultimately futile bid to win an NFL contract in America, Holmes
COWBOYS skipper Michael Morgan admits he is not a selection untouchable for the Maroons, saying North Queensland’s form this season will have a bearing on whether he is recalled to the Origin arena. Morgan has been a member of the Queensland set-up since 2015, having compiled 12 appearances from five consecutive campaigns and featuring in
QUEENSLAND coach Kevin Walters has urged Brodie Croft to use his lifeline from the Broncos to prove he can be the halfback to succeed Maroons captain Daly Cherry-Evans in the Origin arena. Croft’s omission from Queensland’s 33-man squad which gathered for a pre-season camp last month was evidence Walters wants to see the Dalby product
QUEENSLAND coach Kevin Walters has refused to guarantee Kalyn Ponga the No.1 jumper as he declared the race for the Maroons’ coveted fullback spot this season is wide open. Underscoring the greater depth of the Queensland set-up, Walters concedes the fullback position is one of the state’s most contentious areas with Ponga, Cameron Munster and
One of Queensland’s greatest fullbacks, Gary Belcher, admits he is excited about the prospect of Kalyn Ponga and Valentine Holmes duelling it out this season for the Maroons No.1 jersey. The dust had barely settled on the State of Origin career of the fullback ranked as perhaps the greatest of them all – the mercurial
Former Queensland and premiership lock Scott Sattler is worried rugby league may not get to see modern Maroons No.13 Jai Arrow reach his full potential with a mooted shift to the front row when he joins the South Sydney Rabbitohs at the end of this season. Arrow was one of the biggest names on this
