The Blues will be attempting to do something that's never been done before and will (likely) never be done again; securing a 3-0 series whitewash with all matches played in enemy territory.

The match was scheduled to be played in Sydney before rising COVID cases and increased restrictions on crowd numbers saw it relocated to Newcastle.

As the Sydney cluster grew, though, even Newcastle wasn't considered safe and so the game was moved to the Gold Coast, completely a hosting trifecta for Queensland after the first match of the series was moved from Melbourne to Townsville and the second match was played in Brisbane.

NSW residents need some good news this week and a Blues win on Wednesday will see the sporting gods deliver just that - as they have done so many times in the past.

Last year it was locked-down Victoria that needed some reasons to smile and the sporting gods delivered in spades: NRL champions (Melbourne Storm); AFL champions (Richmond Tigers); Super Netball champions (Melbourne Vixens); A-League champions (Melbourne City). See a pattern?

But there are many more examples.

On Sunday afternoon, Italy's sports fans were disappointed to see their rising tennis star Matteo Berrettini defeated in the Wimbledon men's final by the number one ranked Novak Djokovic. Just a few hours later, and just across town, Italy's football team was crowned the Euro champions and Italy was finally able to cheer.

Twenty-four hours earlier, a humble indigenous tennis star from Australia held aloft the Wimbledon women's trophy exactly 50 years after another humble indigenous woman did the same thing. What's more, Ash Barty wore a tennis outfit inspired by the dress Evonne Goolagong wore in 1971. The sporting gods got it right again.

In 2019, New Zealand's men's cricket team was desperately unlucky to lose the World Cup final on, of all things, a boundary countback. Two years later the sporting gods conspired to put that same team in the inaugural World Test Championship final and guess who won?

Sport is a great release during tough times and the sporting gods have a way of making sure the smiles go where they're needed.

So go the Blues, the gods are with you.