Maroons stars reveal inspiration behind victory

Queensland debutant Keilee Joseph is named the subordinate of the match.

"Getting this connected debut and with the triumph arsenic good is conscionable amazing. I was very, precise nervous, but erstwhile I got that archetypal tally successful I was fine," she told Nine.

She's got 'nanny' and 'poppy' taped connected her wrists and says she played for her 2 grandparents, revealing that her gramps is "not doing excessively well" astatine the moment.

Queensland skipper Ali Brigginshaw revealed a pre-game connection that whitethorn person lit a occurrence nether Joseph earlier her debut.

A mediate connected debut, young, got deed rather a fewer times and conscionable got backmost up, I deliberation that's impressive," she said.

"I spoke to her earlier the crippled and said, 'You don't privation to beryllium a one-game player, you privation to beryllium 10 years', truthful I wanted her to acceptable her standards and acceptable a bequest for that jersey and she did that tonight."

NSW Blues skipper Kezie Apps says untimely errors yet brought her broadside undone tonight.

"Yeah 100 per cent (down to the errors). I consciousness similar if we held the shot a spot much ... each those errors and the disciplinary broadside of things truly wounded america tonight," she told Nine.

"It's the breathtaking portion of having different game, we tin play successful a mates of weeks, and this is the archetypal clip we tin ticker the crippled backmost and hole up a batch of our effort and subject areas."

Apps is notified of a grounds assemblage successful attendance, and she's implicit the moon.

"So proud," she said.

"Sometimes you hide everyone's present conscionable to ticker the women's game, which is truly special, truthful I privation to convey everybody for coming retired contiguous and supporting us."

Queensland's women person admitted they drew inspiration from the stirring triumph from their antheral counterparts past night.

"NSW were coming astatine america hard, but I backed successful our defence and we knew we could get the occupation done," Maroons prima Julia Robinson told Nine.

"Definitely (drew inspiration from past night), the boys played an awesome crippled and we wanted to bring that retired contiguous arsenic well.

"We conscionable had to beryllium calm and acceptable ourselves backmost up and conscionable spell retired determination and link with each other."

Robinson's telephone is backed up by her skipper Ali Brigginshaw.

"I was conscionable truthful arrogant of however the girls were unneurotic arsenic a team. We watched the boys past nighttime and they conscionable showed up for each other, truthful if anything, watching them showed america the way," she told Nine.

"We've got truthful galore young kids, but I loved however we brought it together."

It's an Origin treble for Queensland arsenic the women backmost up past night's effect from their antheral counterparts.

Queensland were terrific successful that 2nd half, capitalising connected a lapse successful the Blues' attraction soon aft half-time with 2 tries successful the abstraction of 5 minutes that blew the crippled open.

The Blues volition wonderment what might've been had past year's Player of the Match Isabelle Kelly been connected the tract successful that 2nd half.

"Some tremendous resoluteness and that Queensland resoluteness shines done again," says Phil Gould connected Nine's NRL coverage.

The eight-point borderline means the Blues volition person to triumph by astatine slightest 9 points successful Townsville to clasp the State of Origin shield

We're into the last 5 minutes present astatine CommBank Stadium.

Maroons inactive holding onto an eight-point lead, Blues throwing the room descend astatine them.

Some invited bully quality coming the Maroons' mode with Keilee Joseph passing her HIA.

She'll beryllium capable to instrumentality immoderate clip soon present arsenic the Maroons look to bent onto this eight-point lead.

The Blues aren't done conscionable yet!

There was a superb small hesitation from Jesse Southwell retired of the scrum which froze the Maroons' defence for a moment.

She past flicks the shot retired to Emma Tonegato who past finds Jaime Chapman successful the near corner. A much-needed stroke struck by NSW.

Southwell is incapable to person the effort truthful the Maroons clasp an 18-10 lead.

An attempted chip-and-chase comes unstuck for Jess Sergis arsenic she's taken retired by Tamika Upton, and Phil Gould isn't excessively blessed with what he's seeing from the Blues.

"You can't person a unreserved of blood," helium says connected Nine's coverage.

"You've got to beryllium calm nether unit here. Pressure does comic things, and there's nary unit similar scoreboard pressure."

Just 20 minutes remaining for the Blues to salvage thing from this.