THE fallout from NSW’s snubbing of Queensland skipper Cameron Smith this week continues to roll on.

In the two days since Smith lifted the State of Origin shield for a 10th time in 11 years, players and commentators from both sides of the Tweed have traded barbs.

The Maroons camp claims Smith was disrespected by NSW players, led by captain Paul Gallen, when the latter walked away during the former’s victory speech at ANZ Stadium on Wednesday.

Gallen and Queensland playmaker Johnathan Thurston went face to face on Channel Nine’s The Footy Show on Thursday, and Gallen took to Triple M’s Rush Hour on Friday to raise the issue once again.

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While the Channel Nine appearance was somewhat subdued, Gallen didn’t hold back in his criticism of the Queensland camp when speaking on radio.

He says disrespect shown towards him by Thurston during Origin II may have started the war of words.

“I maintain it was not intentional to disrespect Cameron but the way they’ve carried on with it and yesterday on The Footy Show I was happy to leave it all there, but it’s in the paper again today and Cam’s even had a shot at Laurie Daley today,” Gallen said.

“You talk about disrespect, you’ve only got to look back in game two and the end of that game Johnathan Thurston looks directly at me and says, ‘F your Blues’.

“You see four or five players go off at Andrew Fifita and Aaron Woods and you then see the tweet that was sent out that night by Josh McGuire and it’s like there’s two sets of rules.

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“It’s Origin, it’s awesome I think it’s great for the game but I mean c’mon boys let’s just toughen up a bit.”

Gallen said he was initially happy to leave Thurston’s comment alone, saying he thought little of it at the time.

“Nothing, nothing wrong. But you don’t see me coming out after game two saying they disrespected us,” he said.

Queensland forward Josh McGuire raised the ire of Blues players with a cheeky tweet following victory in Origin II.

McGuire tweeted “Losers have meetings, winners have parties”, but it seems the post has since been deleted.

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Gallen took another swipe at McGuire during his interview on Triple M.

“I think it’s banter, I think it’s Josh McGuire being Josh McGuire. I don’t think he’s the sharpest tool in the shed and it’s just him doing what he does,” Gallen said.

“You didn’t hear anyone carrying on about it saying this is disrespectful they shouldn’t be doing that.

“We didn’t carry on like that and I just can’t believe the way they’ve run with it.”

Blues forwards Aaron Woods and David Klemmer were two of the Blues players who remained standing near the stage during Smith’s speech.

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NSW prop Aaron Woods admits he felt sorry for Queensland winger Dane Gagai having to eye off Blues monster David Klemmer at full time during Origin III.

Following Michael Jennings’ matchwinning try, a scuffle broke out which saw Klemmer grabbing Gagai’s jersey and showing him a face that would give even the toughest bloke nightmares.

“I did feel sorry for Dane Gagai at the end because (Klemmer’s) eyes were rolling to the back of his head,” Woods told NRL Tonight.

While Klemmer can get pretty fiery, Woods wouldn’t have it any other way.

“He’s a real calm man, but once he crosses that white line and he gets onto the field, he’ll do anything to win,” Woods said.

“I love playing with him, his passion’s enormous, he gets me going as well.

“At times you’ve got to pull him back, but you’d rather pull him back than not have to.

“He’s a front-rower, you got to have a bit of crap in you.”

Woods praised the 22-year-old’s effort throughout the series.

“He was enormous the other night, he’s been enormous the whole series coming off the bench,” Woods said.

“He got a bit more game time on Wednesday night and I thought he went to another level.”

FLETCH’S RADICAL BLUES CHANGES

NSW has lost 10 of the past 11 State of Origin series and something’s got to give.

Former Blues forward Bryan Fletcher offered some radical changes when asked to give his ideal 2017 line-up.

Fletch named Jarryd Hayne at centre, Mitchell Pearce at hooker and Leilani Latu as a starting forward in a complete shake-up of the side Laurie Daley lost this year’s series with.

Fellow Fox Sports pre-game panellist Nathan Hindmarsh also had Hayne in his side but starting at five-eighth, as well as Blake Austin on the bench.

EELS TO APPEAL PENALTY

Parramatta is set to appeal part of the punishment handed down by the NRL for their salary cap saga. The Parramatta board on Friday afternoon voted to appeal the $1 million fine and the deduction of 12 competition points, according to Fairfax Media.

The board had until 5pm Friday to lodge an appeal with former high court judge Ian Callinan to decide if there is enough evidence to warrant an appeals hearing.

The club is not contesting the deregistration of the so-called “Gang of Five” — chairman Steve Sharp, deputy chairman Tom Issa, board member Peter Serrao, chief executive John Boulous and football manager Daniel Anderson.

The Eels were punished for systemic salary cap breaches totalling $3 million since 2013 including through dodgy third party deals and inflated invoices to club suppliers.

The NSW police have established a taskforce to investigate under-the-table payments to players and will forensically pour over a cache of old financial documents.

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