Origins...

I am not really in Rome and certainly not in Australia but tomorrow evening I am doing what the romans do, even if I am not in Rome and they are actually Australian. Pretty tough to decipher hey? Well as main as Supersport is I have never actually wanted much Rugby League on tv back home in the Republic. So tomorrow we are off to watch Rugby league with some Aussies, but not just any RL, it is the State of Origin decider.




If you have heard of Rugby League you have heard of the State of Origin. We have heard of it but have never seen it. Tomorrow that changes. How it works is this.

The great state of Queensland choose the best rugby league players (regardless of where they play) that originate in Queensland and New South Wales does the same. There you have two barbarian rugby league sides including the best players available that slog it out as either a Queensland Maroons or the NSW Blues. Interesting the two sides are also referred to as the cane toads and cockroaches respectively..! Cane toad? Interesting.

This year so far the Blues won SO1: 18-10, but then lost SO2: 0-30. Making tomorrows game the decider.


Adding to the drama is the presence of the Maroons winger Israel Folau who is 19 years old and at 6f5 and 103kg the man-boy-beast is a hefty prospect. Also the ARU are trying to offer him lucrative contracts to convert to rugby union. Good thing the Boks have Adi Jacobs to defend him...