LIVE: Livid Johns rips 'not up to standard' Blues

The Blues person been fixed a spot of a helping manus from upstairs and Cameron Smith is not happy.

Jarome Luai is held up aft breaking done the defence connected a breached play with a superb tackle from Reece Walsh.

James Tedesco uses his captain's challenge, and portion that's unsuccessful, the Bunker rules that Walsh's tackle was excessively high, giving the Blues the shot and a restart, and Smith is seeing red.

"Stop it. There's been 30 tackles similar that tonight. Please. This is State of Origin. That's embarrassing," the erstwhile QLD skipper says connected Nine's coverage.

Unbelievable! It's different effort for the Maroons!

They've had to support for their lives for ample parts of this contest, but each clip they've gone guardant they've looked similar scoring.

Murray Taulagi puts successful a beauteous small banana footwear and Payne Haas is determination to mop it up but cops an atrocious bounce and Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow snaps it up.

Val Holmes misses a beauteous casual conversion kick, but it's retired to a 20-0 pb for the Maroons.

It's starting to get precocious existent aboriginal for Brad Fittler's side. 

Val Holmes strikes the archetypal stroke of the 2nd fractional and it's a agelong mode backmost for the Blues now!

While Holmes is the tryscorer, determination has to beryllium thing said astir the unthinkable Reece Walsh play that got the Maroons up and running.

Mitch Moses enactment a footwear successful and determination was lone Liam Martin retired determination pressuring Walsh.

The young weapon makes a superb drawback and past waltzes done a fistful of Blues defenders for a monolithic 40-metre gain.

"The footwear pursuit conscionable not up to modular from NSW," says a livid Andrew Johns connected Nine's coverage.

The Blues footwear disconnected and Queensland has archetypal usage of it successful the 2nd half.

They're 40 minutes distant from retaining the Shield. Gut cheque clip for Fittler's Blues.

Maroons manager Billy Slater was taken aback by Daly Cherry-Evans' unthinkable try-saver connected Stephen Crichton successful the archetypal half.

"There's been immoderate large plays," helium says.

"That 1 from Chez (Cherry-Evans) to halt Crichton and past the full squad to get backmost determination to assistance out, that's what this squad is each about."

Legendary erstwhile NSW Blues manager Phil Gould has been near scratching his caput aft a frustrating archetypal fractional for his state.

"I conscionable deliberation they deficiency a clarity successful their attacking play," helium says connected Nine's coverage.

"I can't truly spot what they're targeting. If anything, they're playing into Queensland's hands."

Gould is besides puzzled by the prime to play regular hooker Damien Cook successful the centres aft Tom Trbojevic's injury.

"I don't cognize wherefore that was the enactment if an extracurricular backmost was going down," helium says.

"I would've thought Damien Cook is 1 of their large attacking players disconnected the bench, but that's each gone, he's been retired determination tackling centres."

Will Fittler spell to Cam Murray successful the 2nd half? 

Exhale.

The Maroons spell into the sheds with a double-digit pb and they've unopen retired the Blues successful that archetypal half.

Billy Slater volition beryllium impressed with however his broadside has defended peculiarly successful the look of immoderate ample chunks of possession for NSW.

"It's brainsick retired here," says Pat Carrigan, who is struggling to respire arsenic helium walks disconnected the field.

The Blues aren't excessively blessed with referee Ashley Klein's show successful that archetypal fractional either, surrounding him with their complaints earlier moving disconnected the field.

Work to bash for Brad Fittler here.

Murray Taulagi goes done connected the near broadside of the tract and Queensland abruptly has a two-try lead!

This one's shrouded successful a spot of contention arsenic good arsenic replays look to amusement a fig of guardant passes successful the build-up earlier it ended up successful the winger's hands, but it's confirmed each clear.

Holmes makes nary mistake connected the casual conversion this clip around. 10-0 Maroons.