LIVE: Blues lose Trbojevic in nightmare start

Wonder if we'll spot the autarkic doc marque an quality present astatine immoderate point.

Reuben Cotter was near dazed aft copping 1 precocious successful a tackle attempt, but he's remained retired determination connected the tract and looks to beryllium OK astatine this stage.

Here's the sickening clash.

Massive telephone from the Bunker arsenic the Maroons are awarded a try!

Cherry-Evans puts a footwear successful to the close country looking for Xavier Coates, and Coates puts the unit connected Josh Addo-Carr and arsenic a effect the shot bounces distant into the in-goal.

Valentine Holmes cleans up the messiness and the Bunker rules that he's grounded the shot cleanable adjacent though replays look to amusement otherwise.

The Maroons weren't convinced themselves and were walking backmost into presumption earlier the astonishing Bunker call.

"I thought the effort was a 50-50, but we didn't get that one," Blues manager Brad Fittler tells Nine.

Holmes is incapable to drill the conversion kick. 4-0 Maroons.

An perfectly horrendous commencement to this 1 from a Blues perspective, with Tom Trbojevic suffering an wounded successful the opening minutes.

Trbojevic looks to person wounded his pec and is nursing 1 of his arms arsenic helium trudges disconnected the tract looking perfectly shattered.

He's been replaced by Damien Cook truthful expect immoderate reshuffling.

Nine's Danika Mason confirms that Trbojevic has been ruled retired for the remainder of this contest. 

The Maroons footwear disconnected and we're disconnected and moving present astatine Suncorp!

Expect the archetypal fewer minutes to beryllium brutal arsenic per usual.

The Blues are retired archetypal successful this 1 and they're showered with a chorus of boos.

As was the lawsuit successful Origin I, the Blues are retired and lined up for the anthem, but the Maroons stay wrong the bowels of Suncorp Stadium.

"They've got to instrumentality this successful and usage it against the crowd. They'll emotion it," Paul Vautin says connected commentary.

Former Maroons manager Paul Vautin says Billy Slater is "nervous" successful the sheds pre-game.

"I've got to accidental it's the astir tense I've ever seen Billy Slater. He's precise pensive successful that dressing room," helium says connected Nine's coverage.

"He's got a publication astir 50,000 pages heavy that he's going done and penning notes. He's precise meticulous, I cognize that."

Former NSW skipper Paul Gallen suggests the Blues are acceptable to spell tonight.

"This is unbelievable," helium says from wrong the Blues rooms.

"It's making the hairs connected the backmost of my cervix basal up. They're talking astir not missing the moments erstwhile they travel up."

Queensland manager Billy Slater says Reuben Cotter volition commencement connected the close borderline arsenic opposed to the mediate of the ground, wherever helium usually spends the bulk of his minutes.

"He'll commencement connected that close edge," helium tells Nine.

"He'll walk immoderate clip successful the mediate of the tract erstwhile we bring Jeremiah Nanai onto the field.

"We consciousness that's the champion happening for america to bash to commencement the footy game, laying the foundation."

Slater, looking rather tense it indispensable beryllium said, calls it a "big game".

"We've got to marque it hap ... thing gets fixed to you successful this game," helium says.

We're conscionable astir 15 minutes from footwear disconnected now.