Should Darren Lockyer retire from State of Origin football?
Post a comment.But his call for Lockyer to quit had as much to do with the speed of the game and the Maroons looking to the future as it did the Broncos’ needs.”The game doesn’t slow down, but unfortunately we do as players,” Dowling writes.”I think the writing was on the wall for Queensland in the final Origin game last year when the Maroons came up against a hungrier, more desperate New South Wales outfit, and the selectors should look to the future.”I’d leave Petero Civoniceva out of the Maroons side for the same reason.”Lockyer is set to make public the decision on his representative career next week after being given the first four rounds of NRL competition to mull over his future.While the baby Broncos’ round-one win against the Cowboys gave Maroons fans hope their captain may continue, Dowling said Brisbane’s wretched run of luck in the past fortnight was likely to weigh heavily on its captain.”All this has put massive pressure on Darren Lockyer as the clock winds down on his de
