Origin 1 REACTION! Ponga Send Off, NSW Steal It & Will There be CHANGES?
5/27/202634 min
The Blues stormed back to win Origin I after Kalyn Ponga was sent off for a shoulder charge, shifting the momentum entirely in NSW's favour. Sam Walker was outstanding, running the show and proving he belongs at this level. Now all eyes turn to Game II!
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0:00-Inital Reaction
10:00-Break Down
17:30-Changes for Game 2?
30:00-Billy’s Wide 4 Tactic
32:00-Our Points
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First 90 secondsCooper Johns· Host0:00
[can opening] Ooh.
Matty Johns· Host0:03
Oh, wow.
Cooper Johns· Host0:04
It's a bit late, don't you reckon? See if I give a shit, bro. This is what it's all about.
Matty Johns· Host0:09
Yeah. Yeah.
Cooper Johns· Host0:10
When you, when you win, what do you do, Dad?
Matty Johns· Host0:12
Um- [laughs] Have a sh- uh, yeah, have a drink. Yeah. It's funny, 'cause that trophy you're drinking out of, you threw it off the balcony at half time. [laughs] [laughs] You can see the dings in it.
Cooper Johns· Host0:23
Well, I got it super glued and now it's back.
Matty Johns· Host0:25
It is back.
Cooper Johns· Host0:26
And this is what we do. The series is ours. Half time's about the 20 minute mark. The gold jacket's yours, Nathan.
Matty Johns· Host0:30
To the victor the spoils. There you ... Look at that. What a man. [sighs] Drinking like it's- I hope Laurie's doing the same thing in the sheds right now. What about Loz? Like the where ... At the end there, he's just ... Like, couldn't happen to a better bloke. You know, I, I was explaining to, um, Jack's partner, Gem. We're sitting up there and we had a bit of a conversation, uh, ov- over dinner, pre, uh, pre-dinner, um, before origin as we normally do. Sitting around, we have the, uh, the chicken, uh, roast potato, sweet potato, uh, broccolini, uh, with some corn.
Cooper Johns· Host1:03
It was a good dinner.
Matty Johns· Host1:04
It was. A- Let's get to the game. [laughs] And Gem said to me, Gem said to me, "Oh, so Matt, did you ever play State of Origin?"
Cooper Johns· Host1:12
I could tell that hurt you. [laughs] I could actually tell that hurt you.
Matty Johns· Host1:14
And you know ... No, that didn't hurt me. What hurt me was Trish Gani.
Cooper Johns· Host1:17
[laughs] She laughed and pointed at you. Yeah.
Matty Johns· Host1:20
She was punishing tonight.
Cooper Johns· Host1:21
She was. She was drinking.
Matty Johns· Host1:21
She was punishing. And, and but then I was pointing out different things, and I said to her about Laurie Daley, and I said, "See that bloke? He's the New South Wales coach. He is the best