A New South Wales era ended in frustrating and dire fashion at Lang Park as the Blues once again failed to get out of their own way.
Too many missed passes. Too many injuries. Too many stars watching at home. Too many bad interchange decisions. Too much Queensland and especially too much Reece Walsh and Patrick Carrigan. Too many refereeing calls. Too many wounds, self-inflicted and otherwise.and Brad Fittler's tenure as coach looks as good as over.
In all likelihood, several of the players who took the field in Wednesday's 32-6 loss to Queensland at Lang Park face the end of their New South Wales rep careers, or at the very least they won't make it to Sydney for the dead rubber.For New South Wales to win this series they needed at least a few of the things they couldn't control to go their way.Tom Trbojevic joined the state's long list of injured stars inside the opening two minutes.
Fittler has never been afraid of the unorthodox. From his first match in charge five years ago, when he blooded a record 11 debutants, it has been the defining feature of his time as coach for better and for worse. And on this night, it was for worse.The decision to play Damien Cook, a hooker, at centre in relief of Trbojevic is the kind of desperate thing that should only happen when a team is so plagued by injuries they're flat out getting 13 blokes on the field.
Cook is a fast, dangerous, scything player and it's those qualities that made Fittler think he could cover for Trbojevic. The Rabbitohs man showed it when he raced in for his state's only try as he scooped up a ball in broken play and went for the pedal.
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