The Blues have had an ordinary lead up to tomorrow night's game.

All that rubbish in the media about lack of aggression, players being threatened with the sack, lack of passion for playing for NSW, Graeme Murray's substitution stuff-ups in the last four games, poor NSW tactics in the past four games, etc., etc., the list goes on and on.

All of this could amount to absolutely nothing come game-time. What's most important is how NSW handle Thurston and how the NSW forwards go.

If we can shut down Thurston and dominate in the forwards, we should be home. Those are pretty big "ifs", but.

Come on The Blues!