Game II Has Never Been More Important To Queensland Fans Who Found Themselves Stranded Without Ponga In The Soggy Dystopia Of Homebush

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet |CONTACT

State of Origin is well and truly alive, it can be confirmed this morning.

With fears for the game's life after Queensland scored 20 points in the first 20 minutes of a soggy Origin opener, the NSWRL Commission have managed to tap a few shoulders and ensure a competitive series will be in store this year.

Despite the Queenslanders coming out of the gates a million miles an hour, NSW were able to summon the fabled spirit of origin for the first time in their undecorated history, and completed the biggest comeback in the arena.

That has left the series well and truly in the balance, with Queensland placing NSW exactly where they want them with a games in Melbourne and Brisbane to come.

It has also left a significant number of Queenslanders low and wet, after a rather rabid start to this year's Origin.

For many in enemy territory, the 20-0 lead led to strong chirp and aggressive celebration in the face of the silly Southerners.

However, with the highly publicised running down of the Maroons, for fans like Berrick Benson from Charleville, the game quickly descended into a dystopian nightmare.

After spending 45 minutes looking for a normal pub with a chair to sit in, the Queensland fans quickly learnt that Homebush is not a real suburb, and in fact, is nothing more than a poorly realised 1995 election promise from Bob Carr's NSW government, who at the last minute decided to scrap plans to build the Sydney Olympics precinct in what is now Barangaroo - and instead relocate the entire project to the old abbattoir site in a weird part of the city that is neither convenient for inner-Sydney or the Western Suburbs.

"It's like the Truman Show out here"

"And after a humiliating loss, in the torrential rain, with transport delays, in this Gotham city hell hole."

"Get me out of here.