Game 3, 1999 State of Origin
June 23, 1999 · Suncorp Stadium (Lang Park), Brisbane
Game 3, 1999 State of Origin: New South Wales 10–10 Queensland, at Suncorp Stadium (Lang Park), Brisbane on June 23, 1999.
Attendance: 39,371
Series decider, ended in a draw -- with the series already 1-1 (games), this 10-10 result meant the series finished drawn 1-1-1; Queensland retained the shield as defending holders from 1998 under the rules of the era. Matt Geyer's double is required by score reconciliation and corroborated by an independent box-score source, after one summary undercounted him to a single try. David Furner replaced an unavailable/rested Brad Fittler in the pack, with Laurie Daley captaining. Queensland's own player-of-the-series award for 1999 (era-name 'Wally Lewis Medal,' now retrospectively the Ron McAuliffe Medal) is recorded as a genuine unresolved conflict between sources: one source names Jason Hetherington (Game I Man of the Match, played all 3 games at hooker), another names Allan Langer -- but Langer does not appear in any of this year's three confirmed Queensland lineups (he was on a mid-1999 sabbatical from representative football per his own biography), which weighs toward Hetherington being correct and the other listing being an error, though no fully independent primary-source confirmation was found either way.
Scorers
| Queensland | Tries: Green; Lockyer Goals: Lockyer (1/2) |
| New South Wales | Tries: Geyer (2) Goals: Girdler (1/3) |
Teams
| Queensland | New South Wales | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Darren Lockyer | Fullback | Robbie Ross | 1 |
| 2 | Robbie O'Davis | Wing | Adam MacDougall | 2 |
| 3 | Tonie Carroll | Centre | Ryan Girdler | 3 |
| 4 | Darren Smith | Centre | Terry Hill | 4 |
| 5 | Wendell Sailor | Wing | Matt Geyer | 5 |
| 6 | Ben Ikin | Five-eighth | Laurie Daley | 6 |
| 7 | Adrian Lam | Halfback | Andrew Johns | 7 |
| 8 | Shane Webcke | Prop | Mark Carroll | 8 |
| 9 | Jason Hetherington | Hooker | Geoff Toovey | 9 |
| 10 | Craig Greenhill | Prop | Rodney Howe | 10 |
| 11 | Gorden Tallis | Second Row | Bryan Fletcher | 11 |
| 12 | Chris McKenna | Second Row | David Furner | 12 |
| 13 | Jason Smith | Lock | Nik Kosef | 13 |
| Substitutes | ||||
| 14 | Paul Green | Luke Ricketson | 14 | |
| 15 | Steve Price | Michael Vella | 15 | |
| 16 | Brad Thorn | Ben Kennedy | 16 | |
| 17 | Martin Lang | Anthony Mundine | 17 | |
| Mark Murray | Coach | Wayne Pearce | ||
Player of the Match
Wendell Sailor (Queensland)
Match officials
| Referee | Steve Clark |
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
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