Just about every coach who loses their star players to Origin bitches and moans about it at some point, especially when they start losing games without them.
It was ok for Des and the Scumdogs last year when they had next to no players in Origin. But now they have lost 3 in a row during this years series (and there has only been one game played so far), suddenly he's weighing into the debate about the scheduling.
If Des wants to have a cry maybe he should give his old mate Wayne Pearce a call and complain about his son's off-field actions. After all, without Schitzel's pre-Origin night out at the Cross neither Hodkinson nor Reynolds would have even been selected, Daley would have gone with Piss and Baloney.