Simon Brunsdon

1 week ago | nine.com.au | Simon Brunsdon

Queensland Racing is investigating an alleged altercation between two Group 1 winning jockeys at a race meeting on Wednesday. Top Queensland hoops Noel Callow and Kyle Wilson-Taylor were allegedly the riders involved in the trackside incident, according to News Corp. The pair were riding at Doomben and both competed in race six and race eight, their horses finishing well out of the placings in both races.

1 week ago | nine.com.au | Simon Brunsdon

Queensland coach Billy Slater has suggested he won't be making sweeping team changes despite being soundly beaten at home in the State of Origin opener. And it's a sentiment Dolphins prop Josh Kerr agrees with, saying rather it is an attitude fix that's needed to save the series in Perth next month. Kerr was a member of the understrength 2020 squad that famously ambushed the Blues to triumph under the guidance of Wayne Bennett.

1 week ago | nine.com.au | Simon Brunsdon

Queensland had the chance to make a statement and turn the tide of the State of Origin opener by going after Blues agitator Spencer Leniu on Wednesday night. Instead what the Maroons did left Leniu spitting chips and hunting to get some ball. Leniu was lashed by a prominent Brisbane newspaper on Origin eve. The back page headline read "smash this Blues grub".

1 week ago | nine.com.au | Simon Brunsdon

New South Wales legends Brad Fittler and Andrew Johns have detailed where the State of Origin opener will be won and lost on Wednesday night. And it comes with a scary warning for the two champion halfbacks - Nathan Cleary and Daly Cherry-Evans. The Blues are short-priced favourites to win the game at Suncorp Stadium and Johns believes they have the better team.

1 week ago | nine.com.au | Simon Brunsdon

Latest posts21 minutes ago10.58PMJoey's warning over Crichton injury gambleStephen Crichton looks set to line up at centre for NSW tonight despite limping off the training paddock on Monday with heavy strapping on his left thigh. The Blues maintain the injury is only a cork, but Andrew Johns says if it is, Crichton could be in some trouble. "If it's a bad cork, you can't play with them," Johns told Freddy and the Eighth. "They really hurt.