{"id":89356,"date":"2021-06-22T20:34:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T20:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=89356"},"modified":"2021-06-22T23:02:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T23:02:22","slug":"queensland-star-spills-beans-on-greens-failings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=89356","title":{"rendered":"Queensland star spills beans on Green&#039;s failings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queensland players are hoping for a more &#x27;hands on&#x27; approach from coach Paul Green in the lead-up to <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/live-scores\/queensland-v-new-south-wales-state-of-origin-2021\/921080\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Origin II\">Origin II<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/queensland-hooker-harry-grant-a-chance-to-return-for-the-maroons-in-game-iii\/1207cc5e-acc6-43fe-a184-b1e58c129ce2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Maroons players\">Maroons players<\/a> have done their own painful post-mortem of the opening game, in which they were blown off the park by <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/nsw-blues-state-of-origin-line-up-17-squad-names\/9c67665c-3a64-40af-a706-116b530f69fe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"NSW\">NSW<\/a> by 50 points.<\/p>\n<p>And they have concluded that they spent too much time playing mind games with what the Blues might or might not do instead of worrying about their own house.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They had a very strong side with great individual players and I think we spent a lot of the week trying to counter them,&quot; one senior Maroons player told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6260225015001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2021\/06\/365796\/pickerImage.jpg\" alt=\"QLDER: Darren Lockyer defends Maroons selections\" data-vms-id=\"ref:ckq7u8b7n001u0gpa1alwwgl7\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I believe Paul had faith in us coming up with the goods in attack &#8211; he knows you can&#x27;t teach experienced Origin players much in just a couple of sessions.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We went out there and screwed up &#8211; that&#x27;s on us.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But I hope this week we work more on our own combinations, get game one out of our heads and work to our strengths.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6259833159001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2021\/06\/365617\/pickerImage.jpg\" alt=\"Gus slams Queensland&#x27;s Walsh selection\" data-vms-id=\"ref:ckq6fqwai001g0hpdfj1kqiqn\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;We have plenty of strike-power of our own and if we concentrate on those strengths rather then trying to stop the Blues, we will go better.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The Maroons have a great record against the Blues at Suncorp Stadium and will need every bit of the home ground advantage to square the series after the disaster in Townsville.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Queensland players are hoping for a more &#x27;hands on&#x27; approach from coach Paul Green in the lead-up to Origin II on Sunday. 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