{"id":310004,"date":"2023-06-20T02:05:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T02:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=310004"},"modified":"2023-06-20T02:58:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T02:58:36","slug":"freddys-cagey-response-as-blues-plot-team-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=310004","title":{"rendered":"Freddy's cagey response as Blues plot team switch"},"content":{"rendered":"

N\ufeffew South Wales<\/a> coach Brad Fittler<\/a> played a straight bat to questions over a potential late team switch for Origin<\/a> II.<\/p>\n

Eagle-eyed viewers noticed the Blues wingers had switched sides during training sessions leading up to Wednesday's crunch clash at Suncorp Stadium.<\/p>\n

\ufeffThe suggestion is Josh Addo-Carr<\/a> will play on NSW's left wing, putting him directly against towering Queensland flyer Xavier Coates.<\/p>\n

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Coates – who is replacing the injured Selwyn Cobbo\ufeff in the Maroons team – has a freakish ability to leap high in the air and take AFL-like grabs.<\/p>\n

\"Xavier<\/p>\n

The Blues are hoping to negate Daly Cherry-Evans planting kicks on the head of shorter winger Brian To'o, who would no doubt struggle to match Coates in the air.<\/p>\n

\ufeffFittler was asked about the switch at his press conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

"I don't know anything about it," he replied with a straight face, before moving to the next question.<\/p>\n

Queensland coach Billy Slater also had no comment when asked about the NSW switch.<\/p>\n

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"That's speculation, we're not too worried about that," Slater said.<\/p>\n

"We just want to play to our strengths.\ufeff"<\/p>\n

Coates has played six Origin games for Queensland to date and has only scored two tries. Both times he was marked by tall Blues winger Daniel Tupou.<\/p>\n

\"Slater<\/p>\n

\ufeffThe NSW camp has already been rocked by the withdrawal of superstar centre Latrell Mitchell for the second game in a row.<\/p>\n

Fittler, though, confirmed forwards Cameron Murray and Liam Martin will play after overcoming injuries.<\/p>\n

The coach is desperate to reverse the fortunes from game one, where the Blues let a lead slip and leaked two late tries to lose to the Maroons.<\/p>\n

"If anything in the first game I thought we relaxed. We were in a really good position and then we relaxed, and I don't know why," Fittler said.<\/p>\n

"We can't have any of that.<\/p>\n

"It burns me… it was a bit embarrassing towards the end. Sometimes embarrassment is a pretty good motivator.\ufeff"<\/p>\n

The Blues and Maroons have their final training runs on \ufeffTuesday before Wednesday's clash in Brisbane.<\/p>\n

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