"Coincidently the final points only came after Kimmorley left the field"
and therein lies the difference between the two sides - tho' kimmorley had a go, qld had the quality players to win the first two games - mainly thurston - apart from that, pretty much equal
nsw actually scored more points than qld in the series - in other words, qld didn't exactly blow nsw off the park with their full compliment in the other 2 games - class players win matches