'Perfect' start sets up Maroons triumph in Origin II at Suncorp Stadium Matt Scott gets the Maroons charging forward at Suncorp Stadium. IF YOU are wondering what perfect football looks like, you are watching it. Succinct as ever, the words belonged to Ray Warren, rugby league's doyen of commentators. Like the spectators at Suncorp last night, he was left in awe of Queensland's opening 20 minutes of mayhem. After four decades of calling, "Rabs" knows flawless football when he sees it. But forget perfect football. This was more. This was the perfect storm, and Queensland's Origin tsunami not only blew NSW off the park, it blew their hopes of terminating the Maroons' seven-year dynasty on enemy soil. The Maroons' insipid start in Origin I painted a damning picture of a unit that had, perhaps, tasted one victory too many. Coach Mal Meninga was aware of it, and vowed to address it. Last night, the Maroons, confronting their Origin mortality, delivered sheer brutality. Their start was furious, relentless and intoxicating. Has there been an Origin beginning like it? NSW were not so much beaten to the punch as floored by a bevy of blows that came from Johnathan Thurston on the left, Sam Thaiday on the right and Cameron Smith in the centre. Matt Gillett tries to break through the Blues defence. By the time the punch-drunk Blues rose from the canvas, narrowly avoiding a knockout blow, they were an ailing mess, trailing 14-0 after 18 minutes. The Blues knew the storm would come, but such was its intensity, and the perfection of its delivery, there was nothing they could do to stop it. Wherever you looked, Cyclone Canetoad left a trail of destruction. During the savage opening quarter, the Maroons had amassed 433m to 83. They had 13 sets of tackles to four. Under siege, the Blues were forced to make 107 tackles, nearly a third more than Queensland's 38. NSW had missed a whopping 14 tackles. Queensland missed one. Queensland's new front-row pairing of Matt Scott and Nate Myles had made 20 hit-ups between them. The Blues' bookends Aaron Woods and skipper Paul Gallen had made a paltry two each. The Blues began the second half with more energy but a 54th-minute all-in brawl kept the Maroons' adrenalin flowing. Within 60 seconds, Greg Inglis had soared high off a Cooper Cronk cross-kick to make it 24-0. This Maroons unit never says die. Maroons forward Sam Thaiday scores the opening try of the match.