Gibbs had to inject a painkiller into Cleary’s face to help stem the bleeding before inserting “quite a few” stitches to sew up the cut.NSW’s 50-6 trouncing of Queensland in TownsvilleCoach Ivan Cleary named only Api Koroisau, who was an unused 18th man for NSW, in his 17 for the match. The rest of his stars were part of an extended reserves and a decision will be made on their availability on Thursday.
“With five to go [in the first half] we had to waste an interchange bringing him off, but at half-time we had plenty of time to stitch him up to put it back together and we got him through the second half. He played so well in that second half.”Cleary’s blood-splattered sky blue jumper resembled more Queensland maroon before he was ordered from the field as teammates Tom Trbojevic and Latrell Mitchell ran amok in the tropics.
The Cleary drama was the only major injury concern for the Blues as they look to wrap up the series at Suncorp Stadium in a fortnight’s time despite the first two games being scheduled in Queensland.Their game one humiliation of Queensland was their biggest ever Origin victory, surpassing the 56-16 game three cakewalk in 2000 when coach Brad Fittler was still playing.
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