State of Origin returns for a final dig, with pride on the line only as Queensland search for a Freddy-Finishing clean sweep and NSW avoiding complete pantsing. As the Origin series returns for a final time in 2023, so does our 2023 State of Origin Game 2 Preview Stats and Tips.
Our look into Game Three of the 2023 State of Origin series supplies the usual barely interesting stats and visuals regular readers would come to expect from The Gurgler. Plus some bold predictions about what might happen.
So enjoy our 2023 State of Origin Game 3 Preview Stats and Tips and feel free to use any of the pieces at a pre-Origin hype party, a lunch of half-warm pizzas supplied by your employer to pretend they aren’t trying to keep you in the office more than you want or down at the local where thee’s a girl falling in love near where pianola stands.
READ MORE – STATE OF ORIGIN ONE PLAYER RATINGS
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2023 State of Origin Game 3 Tips
Before we unleash a bunch of interesting or barely interesting stats, we’ll put our money where our mouth is.
So we have compiled a few choice H2H stats for State of Origin Game Three, worked out the percentage for each stat, and come up with an end score.
Our game one rating edged it to Queensland 50.3% to 49.7% then our ratings came in for Game Two at 57% v 43%, so the ratings have some decent form. This time it is somewhere in between. NSW are heavy on the Olympic Stadium and Points stats while Queensland’s H2H, Game Three and Dead Rubber stats help.
MATCH PREDICTION: QLD 30 NSW 20
2023 State of Origin Game 3 Stats and Stuff
- Queensland lead Game Three H2H by a huge 27-12 with two draws.
- Queensland have also won five of the last six Game Three State of Origin matches.
- Queensland lead Dead Rubbers by 12-7.
- Queensland lead Dead Rubbers on a Wednesday by 8-4.
- It is four wins a piece in Dead Rubbers when Queensland have won the series, and one win a piece in the same scenario when the game is at the Olympic Stadium.
- The H2H for Game Three is favourable to Queensland 13-7 when the Maroons have won the first match.
- Ignoring the Game One result, the winner of Game Two has gone on to win Game Three only 16 times compared to losing 25 times.
- NSW have won the last two games played in NSW for game three.
- Dead Rubbers average 38.2 points per game – all Origin games ever average 33.1 – Game Three matches average 36.8.
- After winning game two and clinching the series, Queensland have now made it 18 series wins after winning the first game against just four losses.
2023 State of Origin Game 3 Bold Predictions
- AJ Brimson will be Man of the Match
- The Hammer will score the first try of the match.
- The Hammer might even score the last try of the game too.
- James Tedesco will score his last ever State of Origin try, and announce his retirement after the game.
- Andrew Johns will provide viewers with a nuclear pout.
- Gus Gould will hint at tking over the Blues Origin coaching gig as fans and experts alike will call for Brad Fittler’s sacking.
- Buzz Rothfield will moan about something.
- Greg Alexander will take the loss well.
2023 State of Origin Game 3 Preview Stats and Visuals
Here’s a few choice visuals to round off the State of Origin Game 3 preview.
FULL GAME THREE STATE OF ORIGIN LIST
DEAD RUBBERS
