Official NSW side

[joel caine number 1 fan]

Heighnington is not better than the other backrowers, don't kid yourself. If anyone should be cranky Tolman is the one, not Galloway!

i thought origin wasnt just picked based on 3 months of form? Heighnington has been great for 3-4 years now

 

[Vic Mackey]

you arent going to get the ball through the hands with pearce at halfback

soward is the only attacker in the nsw halves and he is the only one who would be able to get the ball to those players


pearce will just bomb

gaba i like soward as a player and agree with his selection

however to say he is a ball player means you have basically never watched him play a game

he is a kicker and broken play runner, in attack he is your fullback and boyd is the dragons 5/8

 

[Y2Eel]

1. Hayne
2. Hopoate
3. Josh Morris
4. Idris
5. Brett Stewart
6. Carney
7. Mullen
8. Tolman
9. Farah
10. Learoyd-Lahrs
11. Watmough
12. Glenn Stewart
13. Lewis

14. Galloway
15. Hunt
16. Weyman
17. Tupou

Haha man that forward pack and bench would eat the one selected alive and the backline is just as good if not better. 17 players not selected that would probably beat the ones selected. Even if they aren't as good, it shouldn't even be a close run race. The second best 17 shouldn't get near the first 17 and this one clearly would. Selectors are geniused and I don't get it. Do they watch the games? I don't really think so.

Mannah better then Hunt Weyman and Galloway

 

[Vic Mackey]

i thought origin wasnt just picked based on 3 months of form? Heighnington has been great for 3-4 years now

heighington is barely city/country standard

 

[saint_marto88]

Mannah better then Hunt Weyman and Galloway

That's why he's in the first team..

 

[besthalfbackPEARCE]

Pearce for Man of Match

If we win it's a given

 

[chrisD]

Soward can feed a deep ball on the chest of an outside runner at pace well before the line as good as any, but that's about the extent of his ball playing.

 

[Y2Eel]

I'm shocked at the amount of ignorance shown about Josh Dugan here.

While last night didn't look good, you can easily see what he was trying to fo on each occasion, even if he did make the wrong decision both times. But to think that two poor decisions in what was an otherwise strong game typifies a players career shows a breathtaking amount of stupidity.

Anyone who had watched Dugan at length would know that defence is the least of his problems.

That happens alot on these forums.....

I think Dugan will give it a real good crack at the back for NSW, he will most probably be the best player for NSW too...

 

[adamkungl]

congrats QLD. I'm not even gonna waste my time picking through this

 

[hybrid_tiger]

heighington is barely city/country standard

Agreed, and I'm a Tigers fan. Heighington is not good enough.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

So they were all superstars at the beginning? No, QLD stuck by them!

lol Smith and Slater made Origin a year after their debut and JT was playing Origin in the first year he played as a regular starter and all of their talent was evident.

 

[lockyno1]

Still waiting for you to try and back this up, what is it about Dugan's recent form that puts him ahead of Hayne's typical defense shredding as was on show against the Dogs and Cowboys? Was it his turnstile defense against Melbourne, or his being dominated by the Tigers kicking game and providing zero last man defense there too? I'm genuinely curious why people have it in their heads that Dugan is in form, it's just being tossed about without any kind of reasoning.

He is better positionally at fullback, and is not just dangerous in broken play. Hayne is good, but is rather limited in his ability to do the normal fullback things. Defensively he is a liability sometimes. Yes Dugan had a couple of poor moments last night, but positionally he was sound. I believe Hayne is a 5/8th not a fullback.

 

[typicalfan]

Still waiting for you to try and back this up, what is it about Dugan's recent form that puts him ahead of Hayne's typical defense shredding as was on show against the Dogs and Cowboys? Was it his turnstile defense against Melbourne, or his being dominated by the Tigers kicking game and providing zero last man defense there too? I'm genuinely curious why people have it in their heads that Dugan is in form, it's just being tossed about without any kind of reasoning.

You mean that Dogs game where he starts on fire, does his usual stupid headbutt, gets binned, suspended and changes the game resulting in getting thrashed?

That is a BIG reason I think why Hayne lost the race.

 

[Marshall_magic]

heighington is barely city/country standard

Another Tigers fan who sees it, he makes one or two good runs a game, and 15 ordinary ones.

 

[Y2Eel]

That's why he's in the first team..

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sorry still raging about the team to notice that it was a team of different players...

 

[Mr Fourex]

F*ck off you little germ

All the ring-ins and QLD bandwagoners will come crawling in now to add their nuff-nuff input

I feel your pain mate....it's obvious your hurting.

What annoys me the most is that smarmy little merkin Terry Kennedy sprouted this exact team (I think) as inside knowledge on the Sunday Roast today.

F*ck TK shits me off.........

 

[Chook Norris]

If Gaba keeps to his word, he will not watch SoO Game 1

 

[Y2Eel]

You mean that Dogs game where he starts on fire, does his usual stupid headbutt, gets binned, suspended and changes the game resulting in getting thrashed?

That is a BIG reason I think why Hayne lost the race.

So in that order? :lol:

 

[MacDougall]

Mannah better then Hunt Weyman and Galloway

One of the few that deserves his position.

 

[Walt Flanigan]

It doesn't matter what side was named..............everyone would have lost their sh*t over it.