‘We’re a tough mob up here’: Queenslanders try to put on brave face after hat-trick of grand final heartaches

They're shattered, gutted, cursing the football gods. And yet fans of the Broncos, Lions and Titans say they'd do it all again tomorrow

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Is it better to have made a grand final and lost than never to have made a grand final at all?

That is the question south-east Queenslanders are asking after not one but three heartbreaking grand final losses in one weekend.

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