LIVE: Maroons rookie warned over cheeky 'mistake'

Blues advisor Greg Alexander believes Origin II contiguous could beryllium arsenic carnal arsenic the brutal crippled 3 clash past year.

Last year's decider is wide regarded arsenic 1 of the astir brutal successful a decade, arsenic some sides came retired looking to enforce themselves connected the other.

The effect was galore HIAs and concussions.

Alexander said the Blues are "ready for anything".

"Cast your caput backmost to crippled 3 past year, that was the astir brutal commencement to a crippled I tin remember," Alexander said.

"Both teams privation it desperately. We privation to triumph to support the bid alive, they privation to triumph to wrapper it up successful beforehand of their ain crowd. 

"I'm assuming contiguous volition beryllium arsenic brutal arsenic it was successful crippled 3 past year."

"It's the radical – the radical the squad represents, and that's successful the forefront of the players minds erstwhile they propulsion connected the jersey, and past erstwhile they tally retired to their fanatic fans. 

"I've been fortunate capable to play successful antithetic arenas astir the satellite … and this is dissimilar immoderate other. The ambiance provided present and however adjacent the fans are, it's beauteous special."

And what does helium privation to spot from the fans tonight?

"Do what they usually do. They're precise parochial, marque a batch of sound for the boys erstwhile they get retired there, bask what their Queensland squad is going to do."

Maroons adjunct manager Cameron Smith said the Queensland players weren't told not to ticker the Aussies sound implicit England successful the archetypal Ashes Test.

But helium reckons they would've been bully immoderate gone to furniture early.

"There was thing brought up, no," Smith told media.

"But they tin each presumption the highlights this morning. I deliberation each the guys would've had a bully night's sleep."

Wally Lewis has opened up connected the carnal and affectional toll his conflict with epilepsy had connected him, with Paul Vautin revealing that successful the aboriginal days of the diagnosis lone a prime fewer radical knew.

The Queensland Maroons fable famously suffered a seizure connected unrecorded tv portion presenting a sports bulletin for Nine News successful 2006.

Lewis explained his epilepsy had go evident earlier the 2006 incident.

The 'Queensland spirit' is often spoken astir but has ever been hard to define.

This year, the Maroons person gone planetary successful their hunt for a mode to explicate what it means to correspond their authorities successful rugby league's toughest arena - with Billy Slater's men adopting the African connection 'Ubuntu' arsenic a squad mantra.

"Yeah it's conscionable our team, I conjecture motto, that we started earlier crippled one," centre Valentine Holmes told 9News Queensland.

NSW Blues manager Brad Fittler refused to corroborate a precocious squad power up of the 2nd State of Origin game.

The Blues request to bushed Queensland astatine Suncorp Stadium to necktie the bid and unit a decider successful Sydney.

Journalists noted Josh Addo-Carr and Brian To'o had swapped wings during training, putting Addo-Carr connected the near and To'o connected the right.