Queensland would go on to win the first game of the series but suffered a humiliating 38–6 loss in the second game which was played at Optus Stadium. In the post match press conference, Walters said of the game "We were poor in a lot of areas tonight, I am not going to single out one player, even our kick off to start the game was shit. Across the board we just weren't in the game. It was everywhere. The kick-off fucking pissed me off. It didn't go far enough. They beat us up everywhere".