Why does every keep saying Tigers were only down Farah?
Forget about just Origin, they were also missing Gareth Ellis who is their best forward and club's player of the year the past 2 seasons.
They also lost Moltzen in warm-up before kick-off, and fullback is a pretty important position to re-shuffle and they had to do it with 5mins notice, not like the Storm who have known and been able to prepare for Slater being out... Moltzen also does a fair amount of halves work for them.
So, big names out:
Melbourne (4 players): Slater, Smith, Cronk, Chambers
Tigers: (3 players): Farah, Ellis, Moltzen
Sure, Melbourne's players may be better, but as far as importance to their respective teams, the Tigers were basically missing just as many, plus were away from home in a freezing cold and rainy Melbourne and also lost Fulton to injury during the match.
Tigers didnt have the advantage that most people think they did... Was a solid win for them, Melbourne were not beaten during the Origin period last year.