State of Origin Game Three decider LIVE: Score updates, news, video, highlights
Wide World of Sports' Paul Gallen is on deck tonight for our Game Three live coverage of State of Origin!
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Queensland legend Darren Lockyer has warned the Maroons to not chop and change the squad for next year's series if they fall short in the decider.
Wayne Bennett's squad came into this year's Origin series as rank outsiders but with the series tied at 1-1, have a chance to pull off one of the great Origin upsets.
A Blues win would make it three consecutive Origin series triumphs for Brad Fittler's squad, and Lockyer said chopping and changing could see NSW go on a run similar to Queensland in the late 2000s.
Turn back to when we won our fourth in a row and what happened then was we just had this unwavering believe within the squad and New South Wales just kept changing their team and that just played into our hands," he told Wide World of Sports' QLDER.
"We don't have the same amount of players to select as New South Wales did, but I think we've got to be careful if New South Wales happen to win this series that we don't get too trigger happy and chop and change the team too much."
Tonight's State of Origin decider at Suncorp Stadium will be played in front of a capacity crowd of over 50,000, after the Queensland government announced further easing of restrictions last week, and that is music to the ears of devoted Maroons fans.
On home turf Queensland have dominated in deciders, and there's no cauldron quite like Suncorp Stadium for an Origin finale.
"The deciders in Queensland, there's been 11 and Queensland have won eight of them and there was one draw in 1999," Billy Slater told Wide World of Sports' Billy's Breakdown.
"These 34 players are going to experience probably the greatest atmosphere that rugby league can produce, especially if you're in a Maroons jersey."
Maroons legend Darren Lockyer said it's a huge advantage for the Queenslanders to have a capacity crowd for this year's decider, and all those cheering fans could prove the difference in a tight Origin tussle.
"It'll be massive," Lockyer said in Wide World of Sports' QLDER: Origin Special.
"I've got no doubt if you're on the try-line you've been defending four sets in a row, the crowd gets going and they just make you hang in there.
"And on the flip-side if you get in front, they get louder and louder and they just make you want to play for it.
"I think the roar will be massive given the circumstances we've had this year and where the series sits. I think the atmosphere will be amazing."
NSW will be hoping they can repeat history of 2005, where the Blues won their third-straight series by clinching the decider in Brisbane - the last time they won Game Three at Suncorp Stadium.
"We didn't know it at the time but it would be the last series NSW would win for nine years," Slater added.
Kick-off is at 8.10pm (AEDT) tonight, with coverage EXCLUSIVELY LIVE on Nine and 9Now from 7pm (AEDT).