NSW Blues Legend still traumatised from Game II HEARTBREAK: NRLW WRAP
NRLW legend Allana Ferguson and Blues great Millie Elliot breakdown where the game will be won and lost for the New South Wales Blues and Queensland Maroons ahead of Game 2 of the Women's State of Origin series. Millie expresses her disappointment over the exclusion of a key enforcer for the Maroons in Game 1. Allana jumps on the analyser to highlight the X's and O's of Game 1. Plus, Lavender Baj is back in the Social Lab.
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"The competition is too even to not have a consistent four-quarter effort, which we've shown over the last six weeks, where we've let teams back into it. "It's a hard one, like having Peter up in the forward line for Essendon. When you have a tall target like Charlie and Harry, it's hard to not kick to them when you know how good they are and what they can produce. "It's more for us being selfless teammates and bringing other people into the game more, how to score better as a collective rather than individuals." Equally, the Blues know they must not throw the baby out with the bath water, as their defence and contest work is giving them opportunities. "We can't just focus in on what's not working, we have to focus in on what we're good at," he said. Carlton have taken a collective deep breath in their mid-season AFL break as their straightforward problem proves diabolically hard to fix. "For us it's pretty simple - it's just our connection, we think," says defender Mitch McGovern. 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