Yeah would love to see that. Clubs wouldn't allow it though.
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Yeah would love to see that. Clubs wouldn't allow it though.
Stratton Rance Hooker
Johannisen J.McGovern Sheppard
Coniglio Fyfe S.Hill
B.Hill Franklin Walters
J.Hogan J.Kennedy LeCras
Sandilands Cripps Priddis
Extended Interchange: O'Meara, A.Swallow, J.Martin, Naitanui, Ryder, D.Swallow, Wells, Ballantyne, H.Bennell, T.Mitchell, H.Taylor....anyone who'd be close that I missed?
Even though Tom Mitchell did play at national junior level for WA he would still have to be classed as a Victorian if you're picking a team under SoO rules. He only headed over to WA when he was about 15 and 1/2 from what I can see (at the end of 2008), and played for the Ashburton club from at least the age of 9 through to 15 when he left. That gives him about 5 and 1/2 years in Victoria and just 1 and 1/2 years in WA between the all-important ages of 10-17, so it's not even close.Stratton Rance Hooker
Johannisen J.McGovern Sheppard
Coniglio Fyfe S.Hill
B.Hill Franklin Walters
J.Hogan J.Kennedy LeCras
Sandilands Cripps Priddis
Extended Interchange: O'Meara, A.Swallow, J.Martin, Naitanui, Ryder, D.Swallow, Wells, Ballantyne, H.Bennell, T.Mitchell, H.Taylor....anyone who'd be close that I missed?
Even though Tom Mitchell did play at national junior level for WA he would still have to be classed as a Victorian if you're picking a team under SoO rules. He only headed over to WA when he was about 15 and 1/2 from what I can see (at the end of 2008), and played for the Ashburton club from at least the age of 9 through to 15 when he left. That gives him about 5 and 1/2 years in Victoria and just 1 and 1/2 years in WA between the all-important ages of 10-17, so it's not even close.
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/ash-thursday-20111120-1npfc.html
Mitchell's future was settled some time ago, too. At Ashburton, he was a little professional by the age of nine: super serious, always running, rarely saying too much and never mucking around. He moved to Perth at the end of the under-15 season when his father, 170-game Sydney player Barry, got a job with the Dockers
Eddie Betts is a very interesting one, if he (as seems to be likely) was WA based between the ages of 10 and around 14 when he moved back to SA for a short while (before heading to Victoria) then he would be a WA player. I have him as belonging to WA but it's largely a guess, because the stories about his youth tend to vary a bit.
I would fancy Victoria to win but it would be a great contest on paper. Is Duncan of Geelong worthy of a spot in the squad? Or Wilson of GWS?If you add Betts to that team, put B.Hill on the wing and strengthen the bench. Very vey strong team. Would potentially beat a Vic country or Vic metro team. But being conservative, wouldn't beat a Vic team.
I would fancy Victoria to win but it would be a great contest on paper. Is Duncan of Geelong worthy of a spot in the squad? Or Wilson of GWS?
Right now, every time of year we should be playing State of Origin football. Leave the Community series practice matches for the rest of the players to get their practice but the elite players of the league playing State of Origin 2 weekends in a row this time of year would be awesome for football in general. It is the one glaring missing thing from our football calendar that should be there as the most elite level of our game to celebrate and the best players aspire to play in of the best of the best.
May is from NT (going to school for a while in Victoria wouldn't change his status), while Laird is from SA.The Big V to sort them out
Shaw, T McDonald, Simpson
Docherty, May, Laird
Parker, Selwood, Pendlebury
Dahlhaus, Roughead, Bontempelli
Ablett, Lynch, Stringer
Gawn, Dangerfield, Gray
Bench
Goldstein, Sloane, J Steven, Hodge
Emergencies
Kennedy, Waite and Martin
Have a feeling Waite and maybe Ablett played in the last Big V game pictured above.
Miss this most elite level of the game.
This is ideal time to play it whilst fringe players continue club practice matches.
May is from NT (going to school for a while in Victoria wouldn't change his status), while Laird is from SA.
I would like to see the AFL announce "official" SoO teams of the year after every season (based on performances from that season), it would at least help in the "identification" process.Yeah, since that post realised all that but was in another thread so updated there and not here. Hurley ended up CHB in that Vic team. Highlights how hard it is to be fully aware of each stats possible teams due to actually not seeing real squads created anymore. In past decades it was far easier to identify which state each player was from. Now you got to double check up to be sure. Sign of the times.
I would like to see the AFL announce "official" SoO teams of the year after every season (based on performances from that season), it would at least help in the "identification" process.
If there was a state of origin carnival series, the groups would be like this:
GROUP 1:
Vic Metro
SA
WA
Tasmania
GROUP 2:
Vic Country
Queensland
NT
NSW/ACT
Top 2 teams from each group meet in the semi finals.
The two semi finals winners then play off for the national final at the MCG.
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