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<\/p>\nCraig Bellamy says his door will always remain open to Laurie Daley as the embattled NSW coach fights to save his job and the State of Origin series.<\/p>\n
Daley is a man under pressure after Wednesday night’s game-two loss where the Blues led 12-8 before Queensland romped to a 44-22 win at the MCG to square the series.<\/p>\n
It is the second-straight year under Daley that the Blues, who lost last year’s series, have blown a game-one lead.<\/p>\n
Queensland host game three at Suncorp Stadium on July 8 and Bellamy explained he would be happy to act as a sounding board as Daley weighs up his selections and tactics.<\/p>\n
The Melbourne coach was an advisor to Daley during the 2025 series before renouncing his role to prioritise his club commitments with the Storm.<\/p>\n
“I’m always there for Laurie. It’s not so much that we’re in footy, it’s that we’re mates,” Bellamy said on Saturday.<\/p>\n
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Craig Bellamy worked alongside Laurie Daley as the Blues assistant coach last year. (Dean Lewins\/AAP PHOTOS)<\/p>\n
“We played together at the Raiders and I’m obviously a bit older than him, but we’ve always been mates, we always will be mates.<\/p>\n
“If he wants my opinion at some stage or a bit of advice or I’m sort of going to give it to him, but I’m not going to stick my nose in where it’s not wanted either.<\/p>\n
“He’ll have it under control, he’s got his own idea on footy and it usually works.”<\/p>\n
Daley has plenty of selection headaches over the next three weeks with the likes of Tom Trbojevic and Latrell Mitchell all expected to be available for the decider.<\/p>\n
And in a further boost for Daley, hooker Blayke Brailey is expected to return for Cronulla on Sunday against the Sydney Roosters.<\/p>\n
Brailey made his Blues debut in the series opener but was ruled out of game two with a broken arm.<\/p>\n
“He has healed really well and he’s got no pain but his strength is good,” Sharks coach Craig Fitzgibbon said on Saturday.<\/p>\n
I’m not worried about Origin III, we’ve just got to get through tomorrow night.<\/p>\n
“The surgery was really successful but he never had anything in his mind other than what was the quickest timeframe to get back and he’s worked towards that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Bellamy says his door will always remain open to Laurie Daley as the embattled NSW coach fights…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,8089,6406,761,762,158,85,6405],"class_list":["post-748290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-craig-bellamy","tag-laurie-daley","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports","tag-state-of-origin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748290","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=748290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}