The JJ selection in game 1 last series was a laugh. Daley doesn't select players out of position, but then selects a young bloke who had been playing on the right edge at Canterbury for most of his short NRL career, as the state's starting middle forward - one of the most demanding positions on the rugby league field in Origin.
Furthermore, all this form talk is absolute bullshit. Selecting young kids on purely on 'form' really disregards a whole heap of variables which is contributing to that 'form'. One of the myriad of issues NSW origin has had over the past decade is the selectors having absolutely no idea about how to select a player on attributes, or not doing the work to get to that stage. Instead, they mostly relying on a 6-week YouTube highlight reel. Yes, I understand that you don't just select numpties struggling at NRL level, but if a kid is killing it on club form, then the next step as a selector is to analyse what attributes they have which translates to the elite level. f**k me, Daley is a full-time coach without any club commitments, and what else does Bozo do? Does he still do the radio if a weekend? Either way, that leaves a lot of time for properly analysing NSW-eligible players during the week which is what he also should be doing as a selector.
however, it's moot when there is an embedded culture of doing it for yourself, and still playing the 1980s origin game of playing the man amongst the NSW player leadership.
