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The soap opera of rugby league is dishing out twists and turns every couple of hours in the lead up to Game 2 of the 2025 State Of Origin story.
With Queensland’s back against the walls after losing game 1 at home, the Maroons are doing what all of the world’s greatest sportsmen do when they need to dig deep. Fixating on a completely manufactured act of disrespect.
Just like when Michael Jordan convinced his Bull teammates that the Washington Bullets star LaBradford Smith had slighted him by saying ‘Nice game, Mike’ after outperforming him late in the 1992 NBA season, the Maroons have also constructed their own motivation ahead of tonight’s match.
What started as a light ribbing from former Blues prop Aaron Woods during a broadcasted conversation about Queensland’s Game 1 loss, Queenslanders have now decided that that Triple M announcer is public enemy number 1.
His crime, referring to QLD coach Billy Slater as ‘a grub’.
By far one of the most common adjectives in the entire history of Australian rugby league, the word ‘grub’ can be both a slur and a compliment, depending on the mood of the person who says it.
Billy Slater, and the wider NRL media, has decided that Aaron Woods used this word in bad faith.
Somehow, mental illness has been dragged into this drama, as coach Billy Slater levels public accusations towards the toxic NRL media who enable the actions of villainous NSW shock jocks.
In doing this, Slater has taken the pressure off the Queensland players, they are now in a position to respond to this disrespect by smashing every blue jersey that appears in front of them tonight.
The Betoota Advocate has hit the streets of Queensland to see if the everyday footy fans have also immersed themselves in Slater’s pre-match drama.
“Aaron Woods is a clown. We used to call him Sharon because he played like a little girl” says Dorothy, 68, a retired school principal from Wynnum.
Dias, 34, a car detailer from Mackay says “The only appropriate response to this disrespect is unbridled on-field violence. 8-in-a-row. Never forget.”
“I wish Sharon Woods was still playing. What I would give to see Big Tino burst his fucken spleen tonight” says Sarah, 19, a marketing account manager from the Gold Coast.
“How bout New South Wales just focus on winning game 2 and not counting their chickens before they hatch. This kind of arrogance is why Queensland nearly destroyed the entire concept of Origin because the Blues were too fucken shit to win two series in a row for like two decades the stupid cunts” says Elodie, a stay-at-home mother of 3 from Ascot in North Brisbane.
Beef, a 42-year-old Grader driver from the outback town of Queensland says NSW players and commentators need to stop resorting to such hurtful language.
“This fucken cocksucker [Aaron Woods] needs to learn that ya just can’t go around calling people names” says Beef.
