{"id":742323,"date":"2026-06-17T12:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/742323\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T12:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:30:11","slug":"state-of-origin-2026-game-2-live-updates-nsw-blues-v-queensland-maroons-time-kick-off-team-lists-tickets-how-to-watch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/742323\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Origin 2026 Game 2 LIVE updates: NSW Blues v Queensland Maroons time, kick off, team lists, tickets, how to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a surprise to no one, Queensland halfback Sam Walker has been named man of the match tonight. <\/p>\n<p>It was a fantastic performance from Walker, whose short \u2013 and long \u2013 kicking game was once again on fire tonight, as it was in game one, and his sideline conversions were a picture of beauty \u2013 kicking 7\/7 tonight. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam Walker in action during Origin II.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1018fbe696a9c20eb2ed044959acf1c1b265e5342baec0b7c7f1e582bb092676.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Sam Walker in action during Origin II.NRL Images<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what he had to say after the match. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really special. I think to sort of bounce back from such a tough loss in game one, for the boys to come out and be really steely and ready to go tonight down here in Melbourne, it was awesome,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a surprise to no one, Queensland halfback Sam Walker has been named man of the match tonight.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-742323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}