{"id":482004,"date":"2026-06-17T13:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/482004\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T13:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:57:15","slug":"state-of-origin-ii-queensland-maroons-force-decider-with-44-24-demolition-of-nsw-blues-at-mcg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/482004\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Origin II: Queensland Maroons force decider with 44-24 demolition of NSW Blues at MCG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queensland has ignited with 36 points in the second half of State of Origin II to beat the Blues 44-24 at the MCG and send the series to a Lang Park decider.<\/p>\n<p>The Maroons trailed 12-8 at half-time, but had a little momentum after scoring the final try before the break to stay within reach.<\/p>\n<p>It turned out to be the first strike in an almighty run for Queensland, with 24 straight points and 36 in total after half-time, which marked the most prolific half of football in Origin history.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Cameron Munster was at his influential in a vintage Origin performance, winger Selwyn Cobbo scored a hat-trick in a sensational outing, while halfback Sam Walker was named player of the match after kicking a perfect 8\/8 conversions. &#8211; ABC<\/p>\n<p>See how the action unfolded in our blog:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queensland has ignited with 36 points in the second half of State of Origin II to beat the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-482004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}