They've already won the series. But Blues want to pile misery on Maroons
The Blues have already won the series after victories in the first two games of the inaugural three-match campaign, and will be aiming to complete a shut-out at Newcastle's McDonald Jones Stadium on Thursday.
Whereas their male counterparts might be inclined to rub Queensland's noses in it, if they were in the same position, the motivation for the women's Blues is simply to deliver the first-ever 3-0 clean sweep.
'We still haven't finished our job,' Clydsdale said. 'We've still got one more to get ... I think we'd just like to come away with the win and do the whitewash because it hasn't been done before.
'So we would love to start, like, a legacy of us having whitewashed the Queenslanders. I know that they'll come out blazing because they're playing for their pride. And we want to be able to get that whitewash win.'
Blues utility Jocelyn Kelleher expressed similar sentiments.
'It's about having that record,' Kelleher said. 'We would be the first team to ever do that in the women's space and that record will never be broken again after that. So if we get that, that's ours forever. It's more about the legacy of that.'
To put it in context, the NSW men's team needed five attempts before they first swept the Maroons in 1986.
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