Walsh struggling with a cramp/leg complaint
SCRUM QLD - Murray with a sloppy play the ball, 10m from the QLD line
PENALTY NSW - Carrigan with a high tackle on Lomax. Blues start their set 35m from the Maroons line
SCRUM NSW - 30m from the QLD line
Holmes converts
DCE Dummies and then sends a long cut-out pass to Taulagi who dives over untouched.
And then a Set restart for QLD
QLD get a fresh set on the Blues line
PENALTY QLD - Liam Martin with a late hit on DCE after he kicked. He's on report. QLD 25m from the Blue's line
Lomax from out wide on the right side, misses the goal
Edwards gets the ball on the right side, outside his defender, he runs to the line, and then gets by the weak tackle effort by Walsh to score
Walsh with a ridiculous inside ball to Holmes, who was pulverised by Angus Crichton.
Holmes converts the try
Queensland again go left, this time Taulagi finds himself in space before kicking downtown and Tabuai-Fidow gets a reasonable bounce, which he regathers cleanly and scores a good try
Blues with a knock on in the contest for the catch. They challenge. They failed.
Queensland with a shortside play on the left, but the pass from Walsh goes over the sideline, 10m from the Blues line
Holmes converts
DCE hits his lead runner Nani with a lovely short ball on the right edge and Nanai barges over
Blues with a drop out, It goes short and the Maroons come up with the ball
PENALTY QLD - They find touch 5m inside the Blues half
Carrigan also sent to the bin for incorrect cuddle procedure
Liam Martin sin binned for aggressive cuddling
First tackle and Blue's with a big hit, causes a turn over and it's cuddles time again
PENALTY QLD - S.Crichton with a tackle on DCE's sunburnt snoz, which obviously irritated the Maroons halfback
CUDDLES! YAAAY!!
SCRUM NSW - 25m from the Blues line
Dearden shut down again by Moses and he forces him to turn the ball over again
SCRUM QLD - Walsh puts up a bomb and Edwards drops it, 10m from the Blues line
PENALTY QLD - Mitchell with a hit on Coates after he catches a bomb and it's timed well, but is high. He's put on report.
We're back!
And that's halftime at the Madge Cricket Ground
Lomax from the right sideline, converts
The Blues go right and Crichton gets a good ball out to the unmarked Lomax who dives over to score untouched
Moses with a grubber into the QLD in-goal and Walsh bats it dead. QLD Drop out
First tackle of the set and Stephen Crichton intercepts and races down to the QLD 20m line before he is tackled.
QLD 20m from the Blues line with a full set
PENALTY QLD - Liam Martin with a sloppy tackle almost creates a spear. No Sin Bin though
PENALTY QLD - They find touch 15m shy of halfway
Harry Grant cops a head clash from Carrigan and he's leaking blood like the Maroons are leaking points
Lomax from the left sideline yet again, nails the kick yet again
Angus Crichton backs into the line and then flicks a pass to Edwards who makes a break and then sends the ball to Mitchell who scores out wide
SCRUM NSW - Moses rushes up and shuts down Dearden and forces a knock-on.
PENALTY QLD - They find touch just shy of halfway
PENALTY NSW - Edwards has been ruled to have played the ball wrong. NSW Challenged and they are successful.
Lomax again slots the sideline conversion
After Luai gets his footwear fixed, he plays the ball, and it goes to Moses at first receiver, who grubbers through and To'o pounces on the ball and scores
Luai needs a cobbler to get his shoe back on
PENALTY NSW - Restart goes dead. Blues go right back on the attack
Lomax just pushes this kick wide
Moses flat footed, kicks to the right corner and Lomax leaps high, takes it over his head cleanly and plants the ball down for a spectacular try
Lomax nails the sideline conversion
Moses kicks long and finds touch, what is this, 1994?
Mitchell gets the ball on the left, runs to the line, draws his defender and the Maroons winger before offloading with a flick to To'o who dives over in the corner
HTF fields a kick from Luai well but is immediately dragged back ingoal. Maroons drop out
Queensland went down the left hand short side, where Taulagi kicks down field and gets 4 runs.....7 tackle set NSW
Lomax converts
Moses on the right shapes to hit the trailing runner, holds the pass up and then hits his lead runner Liam Martin, who straightens his run as he receives the pass, busts through the line and scores a good try.
Set Restart NSW - Still 5m from the QLD line
Set Restart NSW - 5m from the QLD line
PENALTY NSW - High tackle. Blues find touch 25m from the QLD line
Crichton came up and then stood still and watched Su'a make a break on his inside. Edwards though shut the run down
SCRUM QLD - 15m from their own line
Crichton with a strong run, carrying two defenders, then he throws a pass to Lomax but it dribbles forward
Queensland already going wide and finding metres down the Blues right side
Blues get game 2 going
Both sides take the arduous walk from Jolimont station to the ground
Referees & scorers:
Referee: Ashley Klein
Touch Judges: Dave Munro, Chris Sutton
Video Referee: Grant Atkins
NEW SOUTH WALES (38)
Tries: Liam Martin, Brian To'o (2), Zac Lomax (2), Latrell Mitchell, Dylan Edwards
Conversions: Zac Lomax (5/7)
Penalty Goals:
QUEENSLAND (18)
Tries: Jeremiah Nanai, Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow, Murray Taulagi
Conversions: Valentine Holmes (3/3)