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The pain of surrendering last year's decider before half time remains fresh for the Blues, who yesterday enjoyed free time in Brisbane to mentally prepare for what skippers Paul Gallen and Cameron Smith agree is the "biggest game in Origin history".
The tag was applied under identical circumstances 12 months ago, only for NSW to greet the occasion with their worst patch of football since coach Ricky Stuart's second coming. Plenty of soul searching and video analysis has followed and with another Maroons assault guaranteed, the Blues know even the slightest dip in execution will be enough to invite disaster. Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar. Stuart's coaching staff have identified a shallow clearing kick on their first set as the culprit for last year's humiliating landslide. "That's in the back of our minds. cheap nfl football jerseys We need to start really well," assistant coach Trent Barrett said. "It's a real concentration thing. A small thing was a shallow kick on our first set of six that handed the ball back to them on their 30. "The first kick is so important, the first kick off is so important, the first set of six is so important. "We've just got to be prepared to get in the grind. We just can't let that happen again. Six points is a huge margin in Origin. To give them six, 12, 18 point starts . You can't get it back. "We've just got to hang in that first 20 minutes and do the little things: our kicking game, our kick chase. We need to be disciplined. "We can't let Queensland up in our own half. They're too good." That puts halves Todd Carney and Mitchell Pearce under tremendous pressure to nail their early kicks. It will also be Carney's first taste of the sheer hate inside Suncorp Stadium something the Maroons are keen to exploit. "Toddy is a great player and he's in great form this year, but it's a different environment playing at Suncorp in front of 50,000 Queenslanders," Smith said yesterday. "If you apply a bit of pressure to those players, they can fall into bad habits. We have to make sure we do our job with the football first and then when we get our opportunities in defence to put pressure on those certain players and we'll do that." Carney appeared relaxed and content on the Blues' first day in enemy territory. Apart from a team lunch at a city pub, Stuart gave his squad the day off. Some players China Wholesale Youth Football Jerseys including Gallen and Luke Lewis opted for an extra gym session, but most stuck close to the team hotel before presenting one another with their jerseys last night. With tomorrow night's decider tipped to break TV ratings records, both Gallen and Smith agreed it was more significant than last year's series finale. "That's the great thing about Origin," Gallen said. "Every year it gets bigger and better. More people watch it and more people are involved. It explains that if you do not provide us with information we have requested from you, we may not be able to provide you with the goods and services you require. It also explains how you can access or seek correction of your personal information, how you can complain about a breach of the Australian Privacy Principles and how we will Dt5FW6a9x deal with a complaint of that nature. http://theleviathans.net/index.php?topic=177034.0
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