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Moment that 'scared' Joey as Origin nightmare returns - CtrlF.XYZ

Moment that 'scared' Joey as Origin nightmare returns

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New South Wales fable turned adjunct manager Andrew Johns has made a bold telephone connected the opposition.

In a uncommon portion of praise for Queensland, devout Blues backer Johns declared the existent Maroons spine is getting adjacent to being the top ever.

The remark came conscionable a week retired from the 2nd crippled of the 2023 series, and with the confederate authorities needing to triumph astatine Suncorp Stadium adjacent Wednesday to unit a decider successful Sydney.

Johns is typically reluctant to pump the tyres of Queensland, evidenced by an on-air stoush with his member Matty during a vigor conception past month.

But the champion Blues halfback went arsenic acold arsenic to accidental the existent spine of fullback Reece Walsh, five-eighth Cameron Munster, halfback Daly Cherry-Evans, and hooker operation Harry Grant and Ben Hunt, is astir arsenic bully arsenic the legendary squad that won 8 bid successful a row.

Cameron Munster successful enactment for the Maroons arsenic Harry Grant looks on. (Getty)

Billy Slater, Darren Lockyer, Johnathan Thurston, Cameron Smith, and aboriginal Cooper Cronk formed the spine for astir of the dynasty that stretched from 2006 to 2013, and won different 3 consecutive bid aft a Blues breakthrough successful 2014.

"When you look astatine the large spines successful Origin, you look astatine that spine during the ascendant years - Lockyer, Thurston, Smith, Slater," Johns said connected Wide World of Sports' Freddy and the Eighth.

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"You look astatine Queensland's spine astatine the infinitesimal - Reece Walsh, Munster, DCE, Harry Grant, and Ben Hunt - it's getting person to that large spine.

"Munster connected the play (for Storm), what helium did to Cronulla - on with Harry Grant - frightened the implicit bejesus retired of me. His show connected the play was conscionable retired of this world."

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Melbourne five-eighth Munster is the champion No.6 successful the crippled erstwhile he's successful form.

It was helium who produced immoderate brilliance precocious successful Origin I to teardrop NSW's close antiaircraft borderline isolated and acceptable up Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow for the spell up try.

Legendary Maroons playmaker Lockyer wants to spot Munster play similar that for the afloat 80 minutes astatine Suncorp adjacent week.

"Munster, helium got progressive erstwhile it counted past crippled successful Adelaide, but I conjecture if helium has a mindset that helium wants to beryllium progressive from the archetypal infinitesimal and get his hands connected the ball, that's truly bully for Queensland," Lockyer told Freddy and the Eighth.

"We've got to hope, from our perspective, that those prima players we've got enactment acceptable and healthy."

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