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Women's State of Origin 2025 Game 3: NSW Blues v Qld Maroons v
Update:
Date: 2025-05-29T09:15:41.000Z
Title: Preamble
Content: Hello everyone and welcome to Origin III! I missed live blogging the last one with you all due to being at the game, live and in person, which was very exciting – fortunately I was safely undercover, unlike the players.
It looks like things will be mostly dry in Newcastle tonight, which I'm sure will be a welcome change from the swimming pool the players waded through in Sydney two weeks ago.
Now of course the elephant in the room is that this is a dead rubber – NSW took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series after winning in Sydney, so it is only pride on the line for Queensland tonight, while NSW will be motivated by securing the whitewash (bluewash?)
For the Blues, John Strange has made no changes going into the final game of the series, meaning the same 17 players will line up in all three games. Meanwhile, it's quite a different story for the Maroons, with injuries to star fullback Tamika Upton and lock Keilee Joseph.
Despite the match being a dead rubber, there's hope the crowd will still turn up in numbers tonight. Game I of the series set a new crowd record, while over 16,000 braved the rain in Sydney. Newcastle represented hard last year in torrential rain, so let's see if they can do the same this year!
Kick off is at 7.45pm AEST, which isn't too far away, so let's get into it and count down to this final match of the series!
