Why's he included then?
Oh, never mind. You included a link from May 2, for some reason.
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Predict the 2026 State of Origin teams
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Oh, never mind. You included a link from May 2, for some reason.
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They'll have the mentality of mainly wanting 'big names', so there may be some stupid Danger or Pendlebury types who shouldn't be in the team.
Of course there will be essentially nobody in the country that will actually base their decision to watch the game based on random elderly players, but the bean counters probably won't think that.
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To give people an idea of what the teams may look like. Most of the guys named in May 2025 would still be named in February 2026 if the all players choose to put their hand up to play. McGovern is one of the few named that won't be able to play in February 2026.
I think they said selected players will be offered approximately $20,000 each to take part in the game and they hope that will be enough incentive to get most of the best players to commit to it.
Kinda crazy to think Pendles could represent Victoria for the first time in 2008 and then once again 18 years later in 2026, with a third appearance occurring in 2020 as well. I'm sure the AFL want to play into stories like that and it will probably see Pendles getting chosen on the bench for the Big V.
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Bzparkes is right. Why include someone who retired. Unless he's making a one off appearance? And they're going to use golf gloves and nfl helmets? Refereed by the tooth fairy and timo Kane smoking mary Jane on an aeroplane. Ahh I see. Makes sense.
What.
What.
My WA team
Humphries Taylor Baker
Clark Barrass Powell
Jackson Cripps Curtin
Bolton Georgiades Naughton
Waterman Hogan Coniglio
Cameron Pickett Warner
Mcvee Rivers English Zuharr
Vic
Stewart Weitering Worrell
Daicos Moore Holmes
Merrett Rowell Anderson
Greene Darcy Bont
Cameron Curnow Butters
Gawn Serong Smith
Dunkley Mcluggage Callaghan Gunston
Humphries Taylor Baker
Clark Barrass Powell
Jackson Cripps Curtin
Bolton Georgiades Naughton
Waterman Hogan Coniglio
Cameron Pickett Warner
Mcvee Rivers English Zuharr
Vic
Stewart Weitering Worrell
Daicos Moore Holmes
Merrett Rowell Anderson
Greene Darcy Bont
Cameron Curnow Butters
Gawn Serong Smith
Dunkley Mcluggage Callaghan Gunston
VIC kills that wa team. We’ve fallen a long way since five years ago
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State of Origin was awesome in the 90's.
SA, with no one to play, but a strong team.
B. Michalanney Cox Redman
HB: Wanganeen-Milera Wilkie Laird
C: Dawson Day Rozee
HF: McCreery Thilthorpe Pickett*
F: Rankine Fogarty Stengle
R: Grundy Horne-Francis Neale
I: Petty Close Milera Lukosius Neal-Bullen
*SA's claims are he was born there and spent yrs 10,11,12 prior to being drafted. If it's WA playing the Vics one year and SA the next, he might as well play for both...
B. Michalanney Cox Redman
HB: Wanganeen-Milera Wilkie Laird
C: Dawson Day Rozee
HF: McCreery Thilthorpe Pickett*
F: Rankine Fogarty Stengle
R: Grundy Horne-Francis Neale
I: Petty Close Milera Lukosius Neal-Bullen
*SA's claims are he was born there and spent yrs 10,11,12 prior to being drafted. If it's WA playing the Vics one year and SA the next, he might as well play for both...
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Lance Franklin is playing in next year's game as a celebrity player.
Wtf?
Wtf?
Obviously it depends on the exact rules as it seems they up for debate again, but if they go with the final set of SoO rules and the (paraphrasing) "state lived in the most during a player's formative years", rules then if he didn't move to SA until he was 16 he probably would be considered WA (depending excactly when he move to WA, but I'm assuming quite early).
I can't recall the exact bracket used - but after the mid-1990s players had only one eligible state. (No more Dunstall being Qld/Vic, Carey being NSW/SA, Pritchard being Tas/Vic, etc)
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On 2025 form Curnow shouldn’t get a gig, but Gunston deserves to be in starting lineup
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He was. He dyed his hair.
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Don't think so.
Presumably it will be soemthing like the "lived in the most during formative years" rule, but maybe not. Given we're only ever likely to see Vic and WA, the rules might be modified to something to maximise available players and be more akin to the old "wherever can be bothered to claim you no matter how tenuous" rules that applied until the mid 1990s.
Yes could play Gunston pocket Cameron FF and Curnow bench.
King deserves the spot if we are going off stats but, feel the others are more deserving.
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Play Leets at FF. Wiggo in the ruck and Metcalfe CHB.
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