@J. AI Rugby league is not only popular in 4 countries u idiot. Australia, New Zealand, England, Samoa, Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Lebanon, Scotland and many more
@MAN UTD why does this guy even exist honestly one of the most toxic people. Going into comments of other sports and then pasting how much fans soccer has. Literally no one asked mate, people can like different sports bud not just soccer.
The class of forwards that laid on the platform for this quartet were equally as impressive. Price, Carroll, Civoniceva, Webb, Flannery, Crocker, Parker, Harrison, Johnson, Myles, Scott, Thaiday, Lillyman, Costigan, Hannant, Shillington, Taylor, Gillett, Teo, McQueen, Papalii, Guerra, McGuire, Cooper, Napa, Wallace, Glasby.
Started school in 2006. Never saw one Blues series victory ask my school life. Had a lump in my throat in 2012 when we came so close. That QLD team gave us NSWmen and particular the young kids nightmares. Luck to win it in 2014.
That was one of the jokes towards the end of the dynasty. "There are kids going to school now that have never seen NSW win a series in their life time."
My little brother born in 2002, he wasn't old enough to understand the early blues wins, but he hadn't seen a blues win until he was 12 years old in 2014. Long long time.
4 of some of the best players ever to play the game and they all played for one team for most there careers. Madness. Storm won a load but with Cronk Slater and Smith they should’ve won more
Inglis was excluded because these blokes knew each other at very young age before they even got into first grade and share a unique bond. Its a story of the 4 QLD spine and Inglis was never in the story, if he was he would have been included there to share the same story.
3 future immortals and a fantastic halback in Cronk, they've grown up together and know each others games inside out, i'm amazed they lost a game let alone a series, as a blues supporter its impossible not to appreciate the quality of some of those Queensland teams of the last 10 years, throw in G.I, Boyd, Scott and Civoniceva, just to good.
john browndog AHAHAHA you’re clueless. Thurston probably will be an immortal even though he shouldn’t cuz you gotta be good at more than 50% of the game, Cronk shouldn’t even be mentioned. He’s a hall of famer but no immortal. Joey changed the way halfbacks play the game mate
Joeys SOO record at HB - 7 wins 7 losses 2 draws. JTs SOO record at HB - 12 wins 7 losses. Cronks SOO record at HB - 11 wins 5 losses Langers SOO record at HB - 17 wins 15 losses 1 draw You don’t need to be much of a mathematician to figure out who has the shittest record out of these guys. In fact grade 1 math would suggest the shittest record belongs to the token immortal. So basically, the one who has no clue... is YOU!! Goose.
Amazing players, Thurston, best half every, Smith best player ever, Slater beat full back ever, Cronk the most meticulous player ever and one of the best halves ever.
Except that Joey had to wait for Langer to retire before he got a gig. Even Kimmorley kept Joey out of halfback for rep teams. You’re a goose Zmart! A straight up goose. Perhaps you’re joeys mummy.
john browndog that tends to happen mate. The new player has to wait for the veteran to retire. Which is why Thurston had to wait for Joey to retire and played off the bench in his test debut. Joey in his test debut played out of position at hooker and set the record for most points ever scored in a test debut, won mvp of the World Cup and was only 20 years old. Please only reason kimmorley got the nod of Joey was cuz of Chris Anderson who favoured kimmorley. Selectors wanted Joey at halfback but Anderson wanted kimmorley. Pretty sure Thurston played out of position most of his career anyway. So did Cronk and slater
Everything they talk about is what is lacking in NSW origin. Simple, play for your mate and never let him down. Once you have that belief among a sporting group, anything is possible.
i only hope that every young person watching this aspires to be a true gentleman in sport as jt i am british but no person can beat him for his inspiration and respect for the people who support the game, i only hope their will be more sport people like him.. come on you salford reds.
As a Filipino kid new in Australia growing up in the 80s , watching SOO , The King went to our school a chopper landed on our footy field and all the kids were all hailing the king And yes Definitely a very sad moment for me the day after an origin lost 😞 , the excitement watching the origin in the 80s as a kid I’ll never forget
I've really enjoyed watching this guys on the field. They were always an inspiration for the team and audience. They were so great snd their legacy will be a always story to tell.❤❤❤❤❤
Inglis isn't chosen because centre is not a major position for the sqaud. They call it the big four because its three playmakers and the speedster of the sqaud.
Kmart.. Allan Langer - 4 premierships. 37 games for QLD winning 19 as halfback. Represented Aus 25 times at halfback. Andrew Johns - 2 premierships.. 23 games for NSW won 7 as halfback. Represented Aus in 23 Tests.. from the bench, at hooker, and occasionally at half. Now if you want.. we can introduce Thurston and Cronk into the equation as well. Joeys rep career was utter shite as far as halfback goes.
Because Inglis isn't as good as any of them . And although he's good it's only the respect by the indiginous communities that made him so iconic to rugby league
Greg Inglis was excluded because he's such an individual beast who doesn't combine with anybody and just runs that one man army show all day. The other four have had uncanny combinations and connections developed over ten years whereas Inglis would just sit there thinking "I didn't need any help" not really adding anything to the interview. We all know how individual the bloke is
People keep mentioning GI but its about the SPINE, GI is & will always be amazing but a 'Single' amazing player doesn't win Games, a great 'Spine' does and its very very rare that spine consists of Super-Star Hooker, HB, 5/8 & a FB all in one team... yes there has been great combos like Alfy & wally or Fitler & Johns(& Minichello) but who was the regular Hooker &/or FB? These guys brought it to the table (Inc. Lockyer the Grandfather/King of it all) and the GI's Boyd's Civo's Price's Hodge's Gagai's Thaiday's Scott's Parker's Tate's of the Games finished what they was creating at any particular second of the game. There will NEVER be this again in our era. You pick the Top 18 players of the past 13yrs & they would beat any team from any era without a doubt.
Lads, Union is the real Rugby when will you fellaz take your love for Rugby to the next level .... I was once a League fan but once I got older and wiser - Union has more ways to score , more competition, and more followers and more entertainment
Albert Kelly Agreed, but how many of GI"s tries have been set-up by that spine, particularly Thurston? I'm not saying GI isn't a great player, he definitely is, but it's because he's got such a great spine setting up the plays that he's allowed to shine in the way that he does.
Garry Shearman in all honesty, not many. look at it this way, if GI was someone different, Thurstons efforts mostly would have gone to waste. It is precisely the greatness of GI that translated Thurstons efforts to tries. Besides that, my memory says most of GIs tries came from running over people and hence causing massive holes in defences that let him score himself or created tries for Boyd and others. In my opinion he really is head and shoulders above that spine put together. Put him in the NSW side and the 9-1 would more likely be split halfway...
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10 years later and 3 of the big four are stringing it together albeit in a different role...legends!!
Teammates, friends, legends, immortals. Queensland was blessed to have this Once-in-lifetime combination that will never be replicated. Ever.
best chemistry in origin history with these 4.
@M youre still the biggest virgin
@M shove it up where the sun don't shine!!!
These four (and Locky) broke NSW hearts for many years. 2018, end of an era😢
And Inglis
@J. AI Rugby league is not only popular in 4 countries u idiot. Australia, New Zealand, England, Samoa, Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Lebanon, Scotland and many more
@MANCHESTER UNITED Theres not 240 countries mate
@MAN UTD why does this guy even exist honestly one of the most toxic people. Going into comments of other sports and then pasting how much fans soccer has. Literally no one asked mate, people can like different sports bud not just soccer.
@M you support man utd, I am not listening to you
The class of forwards that laid on the platform for this quartet were equally as impressive. Price, Carroll, Civoniceva, Webb, Flannery, Crocker, Parker, Harrison, Johnson, Myles, Scott, Thaiday, Lillyman, Costigan, Hannant, Shillington, Taylor, Gillett, Teo, McQueen, Papalii, Guerra, McGuire, Cooper, Napa, Wallace, Glasby.
9 Dally M medals between the 4 of them. Legends
Braden Ellis plus how many golden boots..?
JT has 4 of them to himself alone
@@joshtaylor2573 Thurston has 3 golden boot.
Started school in 2006. Never saw one Blues series victory ask my school life. Had a lump in my throat in 2012 when we came so close. That QLD team gave us NSWmen and particular the young kids nightmares. Luck to win it in 2014.
That was one of the jokes towards the end of the dynasty.
"There are kids going to school now that have never seen NSW win a series in their life time."
These legends have won it all!! Other than the accolades they have won the hearts of Queenslanders!!!
My little brother born in 2002, he wasn't old enough to understand the early blues wins, but he hadn't seen a blues win until he was 12 years old in 2014. Long long time.
@@chrisyawi 😂😂😂
Miss this guys, including lockyer...it is true their "Chemistry" was excellent.."Clicked" on field many times
4 of some of the best players ever to play the game and they all played for one team for most there careers. Madness. Storm won a load but with Cronk Slater and Smith they should’ve won more
Inglis was excluded because these blokes knew each other at very young age before they even got into first grade and share a unique bond. Its a story of the 4 QLD spine and Inglis was never in the story, if he was he would have been included there to share the same story.
Adam Kombati Inglis wasn’t in the story because he is a New South Welshman. He should never have qualified for QLD.
Thanks for clearing that up for a second there i was gonna comment wheres greg inglis 🤣🤣✊✊✊😱
Didnt he grow up in qld?@@MichaelDavis-dy3ix
Miss them all. :(
JT's Kookaburra laugh!!!
Jess Wong he’s an emu fulla still
You can tell Gus has a lot of respect for these blokes
3 future immortals and a fantastic halback in Cronk, they've grown up together and know each others games inside out, i'm amazed they lost a game let alone a series, as a blues supporter its impossible not to appreciate the quality of some of those Queensland teams of the last 10 years, throw in G.I, Boyd, Scott and Civoniceva, just to good.
Cronk definitely has immortal qualities about him. Hes up there with the rest.
The Jet Thurston and Cronk won’t be immortals. They didn’t change the game or their position at all like what Joey did
Zmart.. you crack me up. Only thing Joey brought to the game was the ‘submit in the tackle’
john browndog AHAHAHA you’re clueless. Thurston probably will be an immortal even though he shouldn’t cuz you gotta be good at more than 50% of the game, Cronk shouldn’t even be mentioned. He’s a hall of famer but no immortal. Joey changed the way halfbacks play the game mate
Joeys SOO record at HB - 7 wins 7 losses 2 draws.
JTs SOO record at HB - 12 wins 7 losses.
Cronks SOO record at HB - 11 wins 5 losses
Langers SOO record at HB - 17 wins 15 losses 1 draw
You don’t need to be much of a mathematician to figure out who has the shittest record out of these guys. In fact grade 1 math would suggest the shittest record belongs to the token immortal. So basically, the one who has no clue... is YOU!! Goose.
Amazing players, Thurston, best half every, Smith best player ever, Slater beat full back ever, Cronk the most meticulous player ever and one of the best halves ever.
Teo Grehan Joey is the best halfback ever and the best player ever
Except that Joey had to wait for Langer to retire before he got a gig. Even Kimmorley kept Joey out of halfback for rep teams. You’re a goose Zmart! A straight up goose. Perhaps you’re joeys mummy.
john browndog that tends to happen mate. The new player has to wait for the veteran to retire. Which is why Thurston had to wait for Joey to retire and played off the bench in his test debut. Joey in his test debut played out of position at hooker and set the record for most points ever scored in a test debut, won mvp of the World Cup and was only 20 years old. Please only reason kimmorley got the nod of Joey was cuz of Chris Anderson who favoured kimmorley. Selectors wanted Joey at halfback but Anderson wanted kimmorley. Pretty sure Thurston played out of position most of his career anyway. So did Cronk and slater
Imo in my 31 yrs these 4 are the best spine I've ever watched play together.
Everything they talk about is what is lacking in NSW origin. Simple, play for your mate and never let him down. Once you have that belief among a sporting group, anything is possible.
Still haunting nsw even today
proud to have watch these legends in there prime
i only hope that every young person watching this aspires to be a true gentleman in sport as jt i am british but no person can beat him for his inspiration and respect for the people who support the game, i only hope their will be more sport people like him.. come on you salford reds.
As a Filipino kid new in Australia growing up in the 80s , watching SOO , The King went to our school a chopper landed on our footy field and all the kids were all hailing the king
And yes Definitely a very sad moment for me the day after an origin lost 😞 , the excitement watching the origin in the 80s as a kid I’ll never forget
1.Slater 6.Lockyer 7.Thurston 9.Smith=Greatest Spine in history
I don't think you could ever have a better spine
@@calosbabos you couldn't. End of subject
agreed 💪
And Cronk in the 14.
Ware Production Inglis in the centre 🔥
Thank you for your service
Best combo now and forever
“Ok the first questions an easy one it’s for JT why did you brush the panthers?”
Dead! 😂
I've really enjoyed watching this guys on the field. They were always an inspiration for the team and audience. They were so great snd their legacy will be a always story to tell.❤❤❤❤❤
At least 3 of these players should be Immortal, I'm not sure about Cooper, but the other 3 have to be, especially Smith.
ORIGINS, GRAND FINALS, AUSTRALIAN REPS, WORLD CUPS.
IMMORTALS.
10 years on
2006 10 2013 And they won three more series after that it was truly the Queensland maroons age of heroes
NSWs fan but respect these legends
Miss this era
If you wanna add a 5th to this collection of greats you can't look no further then GI
1000th like from yours truly
Imagine Thurston played for storm at that time they would’ve been unstoppable
I remember when Joey Johns carved up all these lads in origin, including Locky lol
Remember Joey being on ecstasy as well? Ya fuckwit lmao
He did?
@@saborivaille1258 2005 State of Origin series
@@Godzrage and he still carved everyone up 🤣
Joey's glad he retired in 2005. One of the, if not, the greatest decision of his life.
Cameron Smith was just so clinical
Good Onya Billy
Inglis isn't chosen because centre is not a major position for the sqaud. They call it the big four because its three playmakers and the speedster of the sqaud.
its called the spine. FB, HB, 5/8, Hooker.
also because while he wears maroon with pride he isn't actually a QLDr
And he ain’t as good ....poor mans Mal 👍🏻
@@dazhwoodGI over Mal anyday
Christopher McGregor yes ok 🙄
Lmfao watching in 2024 and the trackies look ridiculously baggy lolol
Immortals
Lol @ 3.25 Gus look is priceless, he’s like oh fuck we’re screwed hahahaha
I miss this period of dominance😩
Wish Coops and Cameron didn’t hate each other
Imagine if they played club together
Might have been the Dragons 11 year premier streak all over again
OP
Love um!
When your born in Qld its already in your blood
Nice Video Teammates friends legends immortals Legend of Queensland
Four immortals right here!! Add also Greg Inglis to this group.
The Accountants 👨💼💼
What ever team play against these in the team don’t have a chance
That's y qld are just to good
1. Slater 6. Lockyer 7. Thurston 9. Smith 14. Cronk will be the greatest spine ever in all levels of rugby league.
Big call. Here’s a couple alternatives.
1. Jack
6. Lewis
7. Sterling
9. Elias.
1. Belcher
6. Lewis
7. Langer
9. Walters
1. Lockyer
6. Fittler
7. Langer
9. Johns
1. Lockyer
6. Thurston
7. Johns
9. Buderus.
Weird to hear Cronk and Billy not sounding like Lockyer
Rugby League Immortals
It should be the big five Greg Inglis, Billy Slater, Cooper Cronk, Cameron Smith, and Jonathan Thurston
Inglis was charged drink driving 😁
Who cares?
John Andersson the family of the person he could’ve killed would care a lot
Yous are the best
The big 4 that choked NSW over and over and over AGAIN!!👏👏👏🔥
KINGS!!!
QUEENSLANDERRRRRRRRRR
Thurston is the GOAT.
t no he ain’t 😂, Joey is the GOAT
Kmart..
Allan Langer - 4 premierships.
37 games for QLD winning 19 as halfback. Represented Aus 25 times at halfback.
Andrew Johns - 2 premierships.. 23 games for NSW won 7 as halfback. Represented Aus in 23 Tests.. from the bench, at hooker, and occasionally at half.
Now if you want.. we can introduce Thurston and Cronk into the equation as well. Joeys rep career was utter shite as far as halfback goes.
How good would it be if they all played for the same
Decoy After Decoy:. Line Break After Line Break - Try After Try.. Next Thing You Know "SeriesAfterSeries" . #QLDER #9INAROW #BIG4. 💪💯🔥
No Greg Inglis?
We've got an Oreo here
Team
Queenslander!
Qld had these 4 like how did we ever thjnk we were gonna win back then lmao
You spelt johnathan
I live in bundaberg
Congratulations
no one fucking cares you pussy ass gronk
What about Greg Inglis
Just sad 😭😭😢😢
Because Inglis isn't as good as any of them . And although he's good it's only the respect by the indiginous communities that made him so iconic to rugby league
Big five Greg ingles
Why wasnt greg inglis in the big four, should be big 5
How will nsw ever beat us
tylor020499 dunno man how will we ever beat qld, can u help me work this one out?
mark bigelo lol we played shit year last year. once a decade I can live with . Enjoy it for the next month or so coz we are takin' it back mate
Metalhead_2017 2017***
A man named Brad Fittler and James Tedesco
Greg Inglis was excluded because he's such an individual beast who doesn't combine with anybody and just runs that one man army show all day. The other four have had uncanny combinations and connections developed over ten years whereas Inglis would just sit there thinking "I didn't need any help" not really adding anything to the interview. We all know how individual the bloke is
Cuticles The reason why inglis isnt here is because they didnt know him when they were young
TL;DR: Inglis is a ballhog.
Cuticles spot on mate!
big 6*
People keep mentioning GI but its about the SPINE, GI is & will always be amazing but a 'Single' amazing player doesn't win Games, a great 'Spine' does and its very very rare that spine consists of Super-Star Hooker, HB, 5/8 & a FB all in one team... yes there has been great combos like Alfy & wally or Fitler & Johns(& Minichello) but who was the regular Hooker &/or FB?
These guys brought it to the table (Inc. Lockyer the Grandfather/King of it all) and the GI's Boyd's Civo's Price's Hodge's Gagai's Thaiday's Scott's Parker's Tate's of the Games finished what they was creating at any particular second of the game. There will NEVER be this again in our era. You pick the Top 18 players of the past 13yrs & they would beat any team from any era without a doubt.
Don't touch smith
there dressed like there a frigin pop band from the 70's
okay but what the fuck are they wearing 🤣🤣
Inglis ????? Top 5
Lads, Union is the real Rugby when will you fellaz take your love for Rugby to the next level .... I was once a League fan but once I got older and wiser - Union has more ways to score , more competition, and more followers and more entertainment
They played no part in the origin... greg Inglis is missing there
It's so obvious who the alpha is out of the four.
Before smithy started baldin
:)
Now they all hate eachother
No they don't. Smith and Cronk had a falling out but I believe the respect is still there mate.
lol inglis is better than all of them and isnt their?
Inglis is a superstar in his own right - but he isn't part of this amazing Qld (& Australian) 'spine' which makes them so formidable.
+Garry Shearman how interesting, GI has set up and scored more tries in origin than that 'amazing' spine put together lmao
Albert Kelly Agreed, but how many of GI"s tries have been set-up by that spine, particularly Thurston? I'm not saying GI isn't a great player, he definitely is, but it's because he's got such a great spine setting up the plays that he's allowed to shine in the way that he does.
Garry Shearman in all honesty, not many. look at it this way, if GI was someone different, Thurstons efforts mostly would have gone to waste. It is precisely the greatness of GI that translated Thurstons efforts to tries. Besides that, my memory says most of GIs tries came from running over people and hence causing massive holes in defences that let him score himself or created tries for Boyd and others. In my opinion he really is head and shoulders above that spine put together. Put him in the NSW side and the 9-1 would more likely be split halfway...
your btoh right, no point arguing. without jt, inglis doesnt get many of those trys. without inglis, jt doesnt get many of those assists.
inglis? lol
Sucks that none of these guys are better than Joey Johns
Sucks that you are a dingus