The strains of Lou Gramm's Midnight Blue ring out around ANZ Stadium as the Blues go into nuclear meltdown at winning an Origin series for the first time since 2005. Can you believe that? The end of one of the most amazing streaks in Australian sport has come to an end. And NSW deserve it, no doubt at all. Qld really looked like steamrolling them at stages but the Blues held on and on and on, once again. Qld produced an effort stacked with errors and poor discipline around the ruck and paid the price. The Blues kept a clean sheet and by the end, under a barrage of pressure, Qld simply became frustrated and couldn't deliver the miracle play that's happened on so many occasions. Trent Hodkinson the hero for NSW with the winning try and the conversion, iron man Paul Gallen finally gets a series on the board. What an epic, what a series and now we have the very strange feeling of a dead rubber back in Brisbane in three weeks.

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