Bizarre moment an angry Billy Slater gives a nonsensical answer when he’s hit with a routine question after his Origin team got smashed
- Billy Slater was testy during Origin press conference
- The Queensland coach gave a bizarre answer to a question
- NSW demolished Queensland 38-18 in MCG bloodbath
Queensland coach Billy Slater gave a dazzling answer to a routine question after his side’s historic 38-18 defeat to New South Wales at the MCG on Wednesday night.
A Shell-shocked Slater was curt when asked if he would consider personnel changes in Game 3, saying: “I haven’t even thought about that. We’re still Queenslanders.’
When asked for further explanation, Slater repeated his strange answer.
“Well, we’re from Queensland,” he told the journalist
When pressed further for an explanation, Slater said: “I said I haven’t thought about that and we’re still Queenslanders so that’s it… I haven’t thought about it to be honest.”
Slater was unsure whether Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow’s AC joint injury would keep him out of the State of Origin decider at Suncorp Stadium, where he said home advantage would mean nothing if his team could not address the mistakes made. an MCG mauling that makes history.
Tabuai-Fidow hurt himself in the first half and was sent off the pitch, but returned to score a try in the second 40 minutes which Slater said he was ‘brave’ without knowing the severity of the injury and whether the backline star would be ready for the match. decision maker.
“He did an AC, that’s all I know,” Slater said.
Billy Slater (pictured right) was in no mood to talk after Origin 2 and gave a nonsensical answer when a reporter asked a routine question
Queensland suffered a 38-18 defeat to New South Wales at the MCG on Wednesday evening
“So it was quite a tough task for him to get back out there. He obviously wasn’t 100 percent, but he knew the team needed him.”
While his captain Daly Cherry-Evans admitted the NSW attack on the Maroons felt “more physical”, Slater said any high shots or hits off the ball would be looked at in the review without pointing out any dirty tactics from the Blues.
‘I think Chez (Cherry-Evans) got knocked off the ball there once, as far as I can remember, but the game went so fast, you know we’re already quite up there (in the coaching box), ‘ he said.
“We’ll find a whole bunch of stuff in our review. I’ll go through a lot of angles and things like that. I’ll do my job, but maybe I’ll comment on that later.’
Despite being monstered in the first half, as NSW piled up six tries, the Maroons won the second half 18-4 and move to their home base in Brisbane for the series decider with an ace in store.
Slater said he had not thought about changes to his line-up after Origin 2
The Origin decider will be in Brisbane at Suncorp on July 17
Queensland have won nine of the past 10 deciders and Slater was able to take some positives from the second half, however. His team scored three tries, with Cherry-Evans playing a role in two of them, conceding just one try.
“I thought the second half was pretty good,” he said.
“I thought our actions, the way we started the second half, we were a bit more behind the foot. We were patient. We weren’t looking for shortcuts to pull the score back.
‘We know what Suncorp means to us. It is a decisive factor, they are great competitions to participate in, we won there a few years ago.
“But it doesn’t mean anything if we don’t address what happened in the first half. And we will. We’re going to go through our game and see what we can do better.
“I’ll look at my performance over the last ten days as if we’re all looking at each other and at ourselves, so we’re going to look at that and we’re going to bring our best performance to Suncorp.”