RETIRED Maroons champion Johnathan Thurston has urged Queensland coach Kevin Walters to consider blooding Cowboys flyer Kyle Feldt as an Origin winger next season. Feldt was a ray of hope in North Queensland’s disastrous 2018 campaign, with the strapping 102kg winger making an ominous statement to Maroons selectors with the best season of his career.
BILLY Slater will become just the 14th man to captain Queensland in State of Origin after being named as skipper of an overhauled Maroons squad for Origin III. Queensland’s finest hours have always been delivered with their backs against the wall, and it is difficult to recall a time in recent memory when the Maroons
QUEENSLAND’S State of Origin selectors have heralded a new era with a new-look Maroons team announced for the first game of the series against NSW at the MCG on June 6. This year’s campaign was always going to be one of transition, given the representative retirements of team leaders Cameron Smith, Cooper Cronk and Johnathan
MARTY Rowen was the right man for the job as the new General Manager of the Former Origin Greats, but the FOGS presented the right job for the man as well. Rowen is one of Brisbane’s best sports administrators, having spent eight years at the Broncos in roles across marketing, media and business development, before
State of Origin is the pinnacle event on the Rugby League calendar, the three match series, the greatest interstate rivalry, state against state, mate against mate. The Former Origin Greats (FOGS) will host their renowned Annual Charity Lunch on Tuesday June 21, 2016 at Suncorp Stadium. As always, the lunch will be the exclusive pre-match event to
IF rugby league has an equivalent of following Don Bradman in the batting order, it may well be succeeding Mal Meninga as coach of the Queensland State of Origin team. With an unsurpassed record of nine series wins from 10 years as coach, Meninga’s reign was one of the greatest coaching dynasties seen in Australian
RESPECTED journalist and former coach Roy Masters summed it up in his column in the Sydney Morning Herald: “As the past decade of State of Origin matches has demonstrated, God is a Queenslander”. While those of us north of the border have always known that to be true, this year’s all-Queensland NRL grand final between
Secure your exclusive piece of State of Origin history with a limited edition framed 'Statesmen of Origin' memorabilia piece. Personally signed by the seven FOGS Statesman Award recipients; Mal Meninga, Wally Lewis, Allan Langer, Petero Civoniceva, Darren Lockyer, Cameron Smith and Johnathan Thurston; these Former Origin Greats have achieved the illustrious and monumental milestone of
MAROONS coach Mal Meninga has hailed Justin Hodges as one of the greatest centres Queensland has produced after the Broncos skipper announced his retirement from rugby league. Two months after helping the Maroons to Origin glory in his interstate swansong, Hodges has decided the 2015 season will be his last as he chases his final
QUEENSLAND coach Mal Meninga says the performance of his Maroons in their series-winning third State of Origin game was "surreal". Queensland's 52-6 shellacking of NSW at Suncorp Stadium gave the Maroons their ninth series win in 10 years, but even that astounding achievement was overshadowed by a performance that would rate among the best ever
