Blues Bunnies Brilliance

Blues Bunnies Brilliance

Cameron Murray and Damien Cook helped make the first tackle of Origin game 3 last night at Accor Stadium. Keaon Koloamatangi was involved in tackles 2 and 3 of the match. The first time the Blues had the ball Cody Walker almost set up a try.

Starting our four Rabbitohs boys had an immediate impact for the Blues and the red and green influence continued the whole game. It was great to watch.

Magic In His Hands – Cody Walker

The stats will show that Cody Walker finished with 1 try assist and 1 line break assist. What the stats don’t reveal is the level of Codys’ incredible ball playing that allowed his team to dominate the opposition.

Walker is a rugby league genius and produced one of the great Origin performances. The Maroons right side defence had no answer for the repeated raids let by Codys precision pass selections.

Josh Addo-Carr scored a beautiful chip and chase try thanks to the lead up work from Cody and Best.

The 8th Immortal Joey Johns said “Cody Walker has magic in his hands”.

We can only wonder what might have been had Cody been selected for game 1.

Keaon Koloamatangi

The rise and rise of Keaon Koloamatangi has been phenomenal and it continued last night. Souths talented back rower made a five star origin debut highlighted by one magic pass.

The Blues were down 6 nil when Josh Addo-Carr burst into the clear down the left sideline. The ball needed to get out to the right fast and a Cameron Murray pass began that process. When the ball reached Keaon he made the split second decision to just help the ball on its way to centre Stephen Crichton. That tapped on ball hit Crichton on the chest and allowed him to send Brian To’o over in the corner. The Blues were back thanks to one of the greatest passes in Origin history.

You made your family and fans very proud last night Keaon, well done mate.

Special mention goes to Chrichton, the boom box kid from Penrith had a blinder, his defence was outstanding. He was on a mission all night.

Cameron Murray

Cam Murray started the game, played 66 minutes and the Blues dominated. Last game Cam didn’t get on the field until the 2nd half and the Blues lost. The lesson learned there is put Cam Murray on the field if you want to win!

Murray pumped out 147 valuable metres for the Blues. His 50 post contact metres drove Queensland mad all night.

Cookie & Cody In The 23rd Minute

A nice run by Cam in the 22nd minute saw him beat Fa’asuamaleaui and put the Blues right on the attack. Next play a run by Keaon to the right opened the field up and set the stage for a memorable 23rd minute moment. The ball found Damien Cook who then played the link man. Cookie moved gracefully before hitting Cody in stride with a torpedo pass.

Cody then picked up Bradman Best with a clever face ball to send the rookie centre over for his first Origin try. Liam Martin ran a good decoy that left Val Holmes in no man’s land. The Blues were on fire and the Souths boys had their hands all over it.

Best Man

A pinpoint Cody pass in the 2nd half put icing on the Blues cake. Walker skilfully found his captain James Tedesco in full flight. Teddy then burst through with the fullback to beat. Bradman Best loomed up and took the last pass to score. The slomo head on vision showing Best in support during the play was epic TV. The smile that spread across Bests’ face before he dove over was priceless.

A super team effort from the Blues, Brian To’o got through a mountain of work, Reagan Campbell-Gillard was among the forwards best. Plenty of highlights but none better than seeing our Blues Bunnies playing brilliant footy that carved up Queensland.

Blues Bunnies Brilliance.
By Steve Mavin for Bunnies TV.