Origin-al Thoughts

There are rumours that State of Origin as a concept is almost dead because of the ongoing success of NSW teams.

Oh how that would amuse those Blues players who slogged so hard to win back in the 1980s.

The Broncos had for a while too much of a stranglehold on Queensland development in the 1990's, and only North Queensland and a few other non-Qld NRL teams took the odd high-quality players to develop them properly.

I personally cannot see how the concept is inherently likely to fail just because NSW win, but I also can't see how Queensland can do ok tonight, NSW just have too strong a line up (but then again, they almost pulled off a win last time too with a similar team).

Update: Some NSW Fans seem to show a lack of respect for Origin