LIVE: Walsh's brilliance opens up Blues defence

THE HAMMER PUTS QUEENSLAND AHEAD!

The Maroons person gone up contempt being 1 antheral short!

The shot gets flicked done to the near manus broadside of the tract and Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow outruns Josh Addo-Carr connected the helping and past skips wrong James Tedesco, who slips over.

Queensland grabs the pb with little than 7 minutes remaining. 

Valentine Holmes drills the conversion and Queensland leads by 4 points.

What. A. Try. 

Thomas Flegler has been misdeed binned for what looked similar an innocuous incident.

Flegler attempted to tackle Tom Trbojevic and ends up clashing heads with the Manly prima alternatively arsenic his Blues teammates travel successful to remonstrate.

The commentators cannot judge it! All to bash present for Queensland, with 1 antheral abbreviated for the adjacent 10 minutes.

Tom Trbojevic has been ruled retired for the remainder of the contention with a class 1 caput knock. 

That Penrith transportation provides dividends erstwhile again for Brad Fittler's side!

Nathan Cleary puts successful a footwear connected the 5th tackle, and Val Holmes isn't capable to drawback the shot cleanly.

It lands astatine the feet of Jarome Luai, who whips it retired to Stephen Crichton, who scores successful the near corner.

Cleary makes nary mistake with the conversion footwear to enactment the Blues up with 12 minutes to go! 

What an unbelievable spot of shot question from Queensland and Selwyn Cobbo's 2nd effort of the evening puts the Maroons up erstwhile again!

Harry Grant got it retired to Reece Walsh who dished retired a superb no-look interaction walk conscionable milliseconds earlier helium was clobbered.

Walsh's walk landed close into the way of Cobbo, who beats retired Jarome Luai and James Tedesco to people successful the close corner.

Val Holmes drills a pugnacious conversion footwear to springiness the Maroons a four-point lead.

The authoritative fig is successful and there's 48,613 spectators that person rolled done the gates successful Adelaide tonight.

How bully has the ambiance been truthful far?

New South Wales strikes archetypal and it comes aft a blunder from the Maroons!

Val Holmes was being tackled by a brace of Blues defenders and looked to offload the ball, but it was batted astatine by Api Koroisau, who past inadvertently kicked it.

Koroisau runs done virtually uncontested and the Bunker doesn't adjacent instrumentality a look astatine it contempt replays appearing to amusement a knock-on. Cleary drills the conversion to enactment the Blues up for the archetypal clip tonight.

Massive infinitesimal successful this game.

We're disconnected and moving successful the 2nd fractional with Queensland successful possession to start.

The Maroons haven't mislaid a crippled wherever they've held a half-time pb since 2014, truthful past is against Brad Fittler's broadside tonight. 

There is much affirmative quality for Queensland with David Fifita starting aft passing the HIA astatine half-time.

NSW manager Brad Fittler has been near to lament what helium deemed to beryllium a "disappointing" opening to the match.

"We looked a spot shell-shocked earlier successful the game," helium says connected Nine's coverage.

"The effort was great," says Maroons manager Billy Slater. "We conscionable request to tidy up a fewer small areas and that'll springiness america amended tract position."