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THERE have been some quality men wear the NSW jersey in 33 years of State of Origin rugby league but there have been some who would struggle to spell the word ``class''.
Just before Mal Meninga's Mighty Maroons put the Blues back in their box for another 12 months, we thought we'd pick a squad all New South Welshmen will be proud to call their own.
They aren't the Dirty Dozen, they are the Soiled Seventeen.
Josh-Dugan
This bloke has had more chances than anyone in rugby league since Todd Carney (another proud Blue). Edged out Brett Stewart for the fullback role. The tick-tick-tick we hear is the Dugan timebomb waiting to explode.
JOHN HOPOATE
Redefined the word disgusting by shoving his finger up opponents' anuses. You have to ask how he even came up with the "tactic" and whether his coach and club knew what he was doing. Look up despicable, distasteful, repulsive or revolting in a dictionary and you should find this bloke.
MARK GASNIER
The clean-cut image was exposed in 2004 when Gasnier made a lewd phone call after a night of heavy drinking at the start of an Origin camp. Was with team-mates Anthony Minichiello, Craig Wing and Craig Gower in a taxi at the time. Living off the family name has its limits.
JOEL MONAGHAN
The less said about Monaghan and the dog at the end of the 2010 season the better. You'll find it under disgusting, despicable, distasteful, repulsive or revolting beside the name Hopoate. Attracted worldwide attention to the game for all the wrong reasons.
BLAKE FERGUSON
Only sheer desperation could have convinced Laurie Daley to pick him in the first place and he responded by smearing the Blues' and the game's image ... again. A piece of advice, Blake: If you can't drink, don't.
TODD CARNEY
No one has been given more chances and wasted more of them that Tattooed Toddy. Seems to be on the straight and narrow for the time being but the clock is ticking.
CRAIG FIELD
Served a long suspension for drug use in 2001 but it's off the field that life has really unravelled. Currently facing a murder charge over the death of a man in the carpark of a Kingscliff hotel.
GREG BIRD
So he's Mr Goodie Two-Shoes now that he's a Titan? Not likely. No one can change that much. In 2004, served 10 weeks for kneeing Rabbitoh Shane Martene. Had a few issues in the courts in 2008-09, too.
BOB COOPER
Played only one Origin match but gets into the list ahead of Mark Geyer on the back of a 15-month suspension for an act of downright thuggery in a club match in 1982. Thankfully we never saw him again after he wandered off to play club Aussie rules in Sydney and tore a hamstring.
LES BOYD
Took Origin football to a low point with his elbow to the head of the Darryl Brohman in 1983 in one of the most cowardly acts seen on a football field. And to think Bob Fulton took his side, what a Bozo.
IAN ROBERTS
A tough guy but didn't always play within the rules. In 1999, had to pay Balmain's Gary Jack $50,000 over an on-field brawl and took Jason Smith out in an Origin match but it's his atrocious acting he should really have to answer for.
ANDREW JOHNS
It's a toss-up what's worse about this bloke, his confessed drug use or his racist rant that drove Timana Tahu out of a Blues Origin camp. Or maybe it's the smug way he sits on Channel Nine's commentary team looking like a choir boy. The Immortal tag is just plain immoral.
Paul-Gallen
Has had more visits to the judiciary than Todd Carney has had to the local tattoo parlour but never stops whining to referees and the compliant and complicit Sydney media over Queensland's alleged ``grubby'' tactics. Pot, meet Kettle.
RODNEY HOWE
In 1998, was banned for 22 matches for using stanozol, earning the nickname ``Needles''. Sort of explained how he managed to go at a million miles an hour for close to 80 minutes at State of Origin level when every other forward in the game was looking for a breather.
MATTHEW JOHNS
Brother of Andrew who never quite had his talent but who shares his penchant for dragging the great game down. Tacky, tasteless, tawdry. One of his TV characters, Reg Regan, has more class.
DON MCKINNON
Urinated on Lang Park in 1988 and had the hide to masquerade as an Origin player, admittedly only once, in 1982.
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Anthony-Mundine
INTERCHANGE: Anthony Mundine with Terry Hill and Brad Fittler.Source: The Daily Telegraph
ANTHONY MUNDINE
Just for being him although one could argue the case for any of the three in our picture being in the Soiled Seventeen. Very tempted to include Fittler for his behaviour ("Australia's drunkest man," said one Sydney cop) and for the babbling he does on the sideline for Channel Nine.
In the interests of better interstate relations and as a fair and unbiased commentator I also present a Queensland 17 of players who may have strayed slightly on or off the field:
Robbie O'Davis, Wendell Sailor, Dale Shearer, Darius Boyd, Joe Kilroy, Julian O'Neill, Allan Langer, Tonie Carroll, Neville Costigan, Nate Myles, Shaun Berrigan, Craig Greenhill. Int: Karmichael Hunt, Johnathan Thurston, Colin Scott, Ben Te'o.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport...seventeen/story-fniablkr-1226677496332#medium
Just before Mal Meninga's Mighty Maroons put the Blues back in their box for another 12 months, we thought we'd pick a squad all New South Welshmen will be proud to call their own.
They aren't the Dirty Dozen, they are the Soiled Seventeen.
Josh-Dugan
This bloke has had more chances than anyone in rugby league since Todd Carney (another proud Blue). Edged out Brett Stewart for the fullback role. The tick-tick-tick we hear is the Dugan timebomb waiting to explode.
JOHN HOPOATE
Redefined the word disgusting by shoving his finger up opponents' anuses. You have to ask how he even came up with the "tactic" and whether his coach and club knew what he was doing. Look up despicable, distasteful, repulsive or revolting in a dictionary and you should find this bloke.
MARK GASNIER
The clean-cut image was exposed in 2004 when Gasnier made a lewd phone call after a night of heavy drinking at the start of an Origin camp. Was with team-mates Anthony Minichiello, Craig Wing and Craig Gower in a taxi at the time. Living off the family name has its limits.
JOEL MONAGHAN
The less said about Monaghan and the dog at the end of the 2010 season the better. You'll find it under disgusting, despicable, distasteful, repulsive or revolting beside the name Hopoate. Attracted worldwide attention to the game for all the wrong reasons.
BLAKE FERGUSON
Only sheer desperation could have convinced Laurie Daley to pick him in the first place and he responded by smearing the Blues' and the game's image ... again. A piece of advice, Blake: If you can't drink, don't.
TODD CARNEY
No one has been given more chances and wasted more of them that Tattooed Toddy. Seems to be on the straight and narrow for the time being but the clock is ticking.
CRAIG FIELD
Served a long suspension for drug use in 2001 but it's off the field that life has really unravelled. Currently facing a murder charge over the death of a man in the carpark of a Kingscliff hotel.
GREG BIRD
So he's Mr Goodie Two-Shoes now that he's a Titan? Not likely. No one can change that much. In 2004, served 10 weeks for kneeing Rabbitoh Shane Martene. Had a few issues in the courts in 2008-09, too.
BOB COOPER
Played only one Origin match but gets into the list ahead of Mark Geyer on the back of a 15-month suspension for an act of downright thuggery in a club match in 1982. Thankfully we never saw him again after he wandered off to play club Aussie rules in Sydney and tore a hamstring.
LES BOYD
Took Origin football to a low point with his elbow to the head of the Darryl Brohman in 1983 in one of the most cowardly acts seen on a football field. And to think Bob Fulton took his side, what a Bozo.
IAN ROBERTS
A tough guy but didn't always play within the rules. In 1999, had to pay Balmain's Gary Jack $50,000 over an on-field brawl and took Jason Smith out in an Origin match but it's his atrocious acting he should really have to answer for.
ANDREW JOHNS
It's a toss-up what's worse about this bloke, his confessed drug use or his racist rant that drove Timana Tahu out of a Blues Origin camp. Or maybe it's the smug way he sits on Channel Nine's commentary team looking like a choir boy. The Immortal tag is just plain immoral.
Paul-Gallen
Has had more visits to the judiciary than Todd Carney has had to the local tattoo parlour but never stops whining to referees and the compliant and complicit Sydney media over Queensland's alleged ``grubby'' tactics. Pot, meet Kettle.
RODNEY HOWE
In 1998, was banned for 22 matches for using stanozol, earning the nickname ``Needles''. Sort of explained how he managed to go at a million miles an hour for close to 80 minutes at State of Origin level when every other forward in the game was looking for a breather.
MATTHEW JOHNS
Brother of Andrew who never quite had his talent but who shares his penchant for dragging the great game down. Tacky, tasteless, tawdry. One of his TV characters, Reg Regan, has more class.
DON MCKINNON
Urinated on Lang Park in 1988 and had the hide to masquerade as an Origin player, admittedly only once, in 1982.
.
Anthony-Mundine
INTERCHANGE: Anthony Mundine with Terry Hill and Brad Fittler.Source: The Daily Telegraph
ANTHONY MUNDINE
Just for being him although one could argue the case for any of the three in our picture being in the Soiled Seventeen. Very tempted to include Fittler for his behaviour ("Australia's drunkest man," said one Sydney cop) and for the babbling he does on the sideline for Channel Nine.
In the interests of better interstate relations and as a fair and unbiased commentator I also present a Queensland 17 of players who may have strayed slightly on or off the field:
Robbie O'Davis, Wendell Sailor, Dale Shearer, Darius Boyd, Joe Kilroy, Julian O'Neill, Allan Langer, Tonie Carroll, Neville Costigan, Nate Myles, Shaun Berrigan, Craig Greenhill. Int: Karmichael Hunt, Johnathan Thurston, Colin Scott, Ben Te'o.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport...seventeen/story-fniablkr-1226677496332#medium
