A few years back Israel Folau signed to play AFL while playing for the Broncos, his club, state and national captain at time, Darren Lockyer, came out and publicly stated that he shouldn't be selected for Queensland as its a very special team to play for and guess what! Mal Meniga, the most successful coach in Origin history picked him anyways and they won. We've always been trying to learn from Queensland but we more or less do what they say and not as they do. Remember that Queensland loyalty bullshit they were trotting out for years and when shit did get bad for them they started chopping and changing immediately while we foolishly stuck by proven losers like Mitchell Pearce all because 'he knew the pain of losing'. They pulled a bullshit victory last year, in all honesty game 2 was a robbery and now they've changed their tune to something else 'NSW were ignorant' 'We could pick a forward pack of nobodies and we would still win' blah blah blah bullshit. Pick the best players you can even if they're not available for 1 of the games and for goodness sake stop listening to the utter crap those hillbillies keep spouting year after year after year.