{"id":517046,"date":"2026-07-09T05:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/517046\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T05:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:13:09","slug":"kurt-capewells-brutal-verdict-on-maroons-origin-decider-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/517046\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Capewell’s brutal verdict on Maroons’ Origin decider display"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queensland second-rower Kurt Capewell was filthy with himself after losing the State of Origin decider<\/a> in Brisbane.<\/p>\n

“It was a s*** game to have a s*** game in,” the Warriors second-rower said on several occasions after the 30-12 loss at Suncorp Stadium.<\/p>\n

“Personally, I wasn’t happy with how I played. The handling errors disappoint me the most coming out of our own end. They put pressure on all my teammates, so it’s something I’m not proud of.”<\/p>\n

Capewell said his performance “burns me”.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old has been a wonderful contributor to series wins in 2020, 2022 and 2025 but he was below his best on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Capewell cares, which is why he was so hard on himself after his 16th Origin match.<\/p>\n

He was replaced in the 51st minute as the Maroons chased points.<\/p>\n

Capewell rubbished suggestions that Queensland don’t handle the pressure when they are favourites, as they were on this occasion.<\/p>\n

“I wouldn’t blame any of our actions on that,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We didn’t play well, they did and they won. It’s as simple as that.”<\/p>\n

The Maroons have now lost back-to-back Origin deciders at Suncorp Stadium, becoming the first Queensland team to do so. The loss was also their third in a row at their spiritual home.<\/p>\n

“It hurts,” Capewell said.<\/p>\n

In 2027, the Maroons will get a chance to make amends in the Origin series opener which is slated for Brisbane.<\/p>\n

“Next year is a new year and Queensland will be ready to take it on from the get-go in game one,” Capewell said.<\/p>\n

The second game of the series will be played at Auckland’s Eden Park<\/a>, the first time an Origin match has been scheduled in New Zealand.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s a great opportunity to showcase what Origin is over in New Zealand. There are plenty of fans and supporters over there, so I think it’ll be great,” Capewell said.<\/p>\n

The veteran will now return to his second-placed club side to try and inspire a run to a maiden NRL title.<\/p>\n

“That’s the plan,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We’ll wash tonight off, go back to club land and get the Wahs winning.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queensland second-rower Kurt Capewell was filthy with himself after losing the State of Origin decider in Brisbane. “It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,111,139,69,213,3006],"class_list":["post-517046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-australia","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports","tag-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517046","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=517046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}