{"id":742481,"date":"2026-06-17T14:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/742481\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T14:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:16:13","slug":"state-of-origin-2026-game-2-live-updates-nsw-blues-v-queensland-maroons-time-kick-off-team-lists-tickets-how-to-watch-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/742481\/","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>Everyone, save for those clad in Blue, left the Melbourne Cricket Ground happy.<\/p>\n<p>There was a record State of Origin crowd of 91,671, who witnessed a rugby league master class. There were the suited NRL executives, who have their dream decider at a time when they are attempting to broker a monster television deal.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"State of Origin will head to a decider next month after Queensland levelled the series in Melbourne.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781705773_167_04ef64bbcc9373985c32b20e15a7cc71917e8eee.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>State of Origin will head to a decider next month after Queensland levelled the series in Melbourne.Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>And we even had cause for Reece Walsh to enter the arena, this time when Kalyn Ponga was the victim of a high shot. The rugby league scriptwriters have outdone themselves this time.<\/p>\n<p>This result \u2013 a thumping 44-24 after a tepid start \u2013 will raise more questions about the composition of the NSW team that allowed it to happen. This is Laurie Daley\u2019s 12th Origin loss with the clipboard, a result that takes him beyond Wayne Bennett for most coaching defeats. Somehow, he must muster a turnaround at that other famous cauldron, Suncorp Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/blues-blown-off-mcg-in-a-maroons-masterclass-20260616-p607bp.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full match report here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everyone, save for those clad in Blue, left the Melbourne Cricket Ground happy. There was a record State&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-742481","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\/742481","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=742481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742481\/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=742481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}