Maroons stars speechless after sealing series win

When the New South Wales superstar tore his close pectoral muscle portion tackling Queensland fullback Reece Walsh conscionable 2 minutes into the Suncorp Stadium clash, won by the Maroons 32-6, seat guardant Cameron Murray was undoubtedly the astir logical enactment to slot into the centres.

Lock Isaah Yeo was besides disposable for the Blues encephalon trust.

Queensland greats Darren Lockyer and Paul Vautin are perfectly implicit the satellite with this result.

"We out-enthused them," Lockyer says connected Nine's coverage.

"They earned the scroeboard contiguous they played with effort connected effort ... conscionable a existent Queensland performance."

"We were conscionable excessively strong, excessively keen, concentrating for the afloat 80 minutes," Vautin adds.

Valentine Holmes is successful awe of his side's antiaircraft play tonight, with skipper Daly Cherry-Evans' chase-down connected Stephen Crichton named the "turning point".

"I can't truly enactment it into words. It's been an awesome week with these boys," helium says.

"To support a squad similar this to six points, I thought we defended our enactment and our backyard the mode we spoke about."

Murray Taulagi and Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow are visibly affectional aft sealing the bid win.

"Words can't picture it," Hammer says.

"Playing astatine Suncorp, each the Queenslanders that turned up, they turned up for america and the boys turned up for each other. It's an unreal feeling."

Taulagi with immoderate praise for skipper Daly Cherry-Evans and that unthinkable try-saver.

"He epitomises what it means to beryllium a Queenslander. I don't adjacent cognize what to say. I'm conscionable successful awe," helium says.

Lindsay Collins is named the Player of the Match aft his monolithic relation successful the Maroons' defence tonight.

"Just to beryllium astatine location present with our assemblage supporting us, this one's for you Queensland," helium says.

"This is what dreams are made of. This is what you bash successful the backyard arsenic a small kid imagining this moment, and for it to travel to world is incredible."

And determination it is!

The Maroons assertion a 32-6 triumph successful Origin II and triumph the bid with a crippled to spare!

"The scoreline says 32-6 but that crippled was won connected defence," Cameron Smith says connected Nine's coverage.

"Speak to each the large players, they each accidental defence wins the large ones, and that's what the Maroons did tonight. They repelled NSW from commencement to finish."

Tempers are flaring present betwixt the 2 teams with 22 seconds near successful the game.

Jarome Luai and Reece Walsh, who had a steadfast back-and-forth successful crippled one, are progressive successful a heated scuffle and Josh Addo-Carr comes successful and throws a punch to the caput of Walsh.

Walsh and Maroons teammate Tino Fa'asuamaleaui letting the Blues cognize each astir what they've done by pointing astatine the scoreboard.

Ashley Klein sends some Walsh and Luai disconnected the tract arsenic good aft a headbutt betwixt the pair.

Luai roundly booed by the Maroons faithful arsenic helium trudges disconnected the crushed and into the tunnel. 

Jeremiah Nanai joins successful connected the enactment and it's a procession present astatine Suncorp for Queensland!

Val Holmes converts the effort and it's a 26-point pb for the Maroons now.

It's going to beryllium 2 Origin titles successful 2 attempts for Billy Slater the coach. He joins Arthur Beetson, Mal Meninga and Kevin Walters arsenic 1 of 4 Queensland coaches to triumph their archetypal 2 series.

Pretty astonishing institution to beryllium in.