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Blues pair accept bans after Origin fight night

Cameron Murray is one of two NSW players banned after joining the State of Origin melee. (Dave Hunt/AAP PHOTOS)

The NRL has hit NSW's Haumole Olakau'atu and Cameron Murray with two-match bans and handed down up to $39,000 in fines after the sideline brawl in the State of Origin decider.

In a dramatic postscript to the Blues' first series win in three years, both Murray and Olakau'atu copped grade-three contrary conduct charges on Thursday for running off the NSW bench to join the scuffle.

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