Opinion What would 2022 AFL State of Origin teams look like on paper?

Coolangatta · May 31, 2022

I honestly wouldn't have a clue. You've got the big three states: Victoria, WA, and SA. I'm not sure NSW/ACT, QLD, TAS or NT would have enough quality players to form a strong team, so they could form a formidable combined team called The Allies. If anyone wants to have a go of this, I'd love to see it.

00Stinger · May 31, 2022

Victoria

FB: Stewart, Weitering, Docherty
HB: Sicily, Moore, Sinclair
C: McCluggage, Miller, Langdon
HF: Petracca, Lynch, Martin
FF: Curnow, J Cameron, Greene
FOL: Gawn, Oliver, Bontempelli
INT: Parish, Darcy, Walsh, Gresham

Probably forgot some players too

There are some very unlucky players

Coolangatta · May 31, 2022

00Stinger said:
Victoria

FB: Stewart, Weitering, Docherty
HB: Sicily, Moore, Sinclair
C: McCluggage, Miller, Langdon
HF: Petracca, Lynch, Martin
FF: Curnow, Hawkins, Greene
FOL: Gawn, Oliver, Bontempelli
INT: Parish, Darcy, Walsh, Gresham

Probably forgot some players too

There are some very unlucky players

Whoa. Good luck beating that team.

bh90210fan · May 31, 2022

For WA off the top of my head I’m going

FB - Rich, S.Taylor, M.Adams
HB - Starcevich, J.McGovern, Baker
C - Acres, Cripps, Hill
HF - Bolton, Naughton, Duncan
FF - Ryan, Franklin, Jackson
R - English, Kelly, Cogniglio

I - Clark, Warner, T.Mitchell, Lobb

Coolangatta · May 31, 2022

bh90210fan said:
For WA off the top of my head I’m going

FB - Rich, S.Taylor, M.Adams
HB - Starcevich, J.McGovern, Baker
C - Acres, Cripps, Hill
HF - Bolton, Naughton, Duncan
FF - Ryan, Franklin, Jackson
R - English, Kelly, Cogniglio

I - Clark, Warner, T.Mitchell, Lobb

No Fyfe or Walters? Tough calls to make, I guess.

bh90210fan · May 31, 2022

Coolangatta said:
No Fyfe or Walters? Tough calls to make, I guess.

Fyfe hasn’t played this year

Coolangatta · May 31, 2022

bh90210fan said:
Fyfe hasn’t played this year

Yeah fair enough.

Instead of a split round, I'd have the two-state of origin games during a bye after round 11, one on Saturday night and one on Sunday. Vic v WA or SA (whoever is considered the 2nd strongest team), WA or SA v Allies. The loser of Vic game plays the winner of the Allies game next year and it keeps rotating on that basis.

RUNVS · May 31, 2022

Not perfect but

New South Wales
B: Phil Davis (GWS), Dougal Howard (StK), Harry Cunningham (Syd) (GWS)
HB: Zac Williams (Car), Dane Rampe (Syd), Braeden Campbell (Syd)
C: Isaac Smith (Gee), Jacob Hopper (GWS), Harry Perryman (GWS)
HF: Nick Blakey (Syd), Taylor Walker (Ade), Isaac Heeney (Syd)
F: Errol Gulden (Syd), Tom Hawkins (Gee), Josh Bruce (WB)
Fol: Jarrod Witts (GC), Jack Steele (StK), Callum Mills (Syd)
IC: Luke Breust (Haw), Tom Green (GWS), Harrison Himmelberg (GWS), Matthew Flynn (GWS)

Potenial Subs: Jeremy Finlayson (GWS), Michael Gibbons (Car), James Bell (Syd), Todd Marshall (PA)

Coach: John Longmire (Syd)

This is a team GC2015 created last year so there would be some changes into 2022. For starters Blakey is a half back now but you get the general idea.

Also Matthew Kennedy did not make the cut last year but he would be in the team in 2022 as he is a much better player now.

bh90210fan · May 31, 2022

Coolangatta said:
Yeah fair enough.

Instead of a split round, I'd have the two-state of origin games during a bye after round 11, one on Saturday night and one on Sunday. Vic v WA or SA (whoever is considered the 2nd strongest team), WA or SA v Allies. The loser of Vic game plays the winner of the Allies game next year and it keeps rotating on that basis.

Some of my favourite footy memories is watching SOO when I was a kid, we won’t see it again unfortunately, the concept is dead.

RUNVS · May 31, 2022

00Stinger said:
Victoria

FB: Stewart, Weitering, Docherty
HB: Sicily, Moore, Sinclair
C: McCluggage, Miller, Langdon
HF: Petracca, Lynch, Martin
FF: Curnow, Hawkins, Greene
FOL: Gawn, Oliver, Bontempelli
INT: Parish, Darcy, Walsh, Gresham

Probably forgot some players too

There are some very unlucky players

Hawkins is from NSW.

footyfan1978 · May 31, 2022

Harris Andrews?
Where he from?

RUNVS · May 31, 2022

footyfan1978 said:
Harris Andrews?
Where he from?

Queensland I imagine given he was a Brisbane Academy player.

footyfan1978 · May 31, 2022

RUNVS said:
Queensland I imagine given he was a Brisbane Academy player.

ok, cool

PhatBoy · May 31, 2022

00Stinger said:
Victoria

FB: Stewart, Weitering, Docherty
HB: Sicily, Moore, Sinclair
C: McCluggage, Miller, Langdon
HF: Petracca, Lynch, Martin
FF: Curnow, Hawkins, Greene
FOL: Gawn, Oliver, Bontempelli
INT: Parish, Darcy, Walsh, Gresham

Probably forgot some players too

There are some very unlucky players

Assuming you can go with birth or childhood as origin, what would a NSW side look like these days? Hawk was born and raised in the Riverina

footyfan1978 · May 31, 2022

Jeremy Cameron in, Hawkins turfed

footyfan1978 · May 31, 2022

Is Caleb Daniel from the Victoria or WA?

footyfan1978 · May 31, 2022

Saad ahead of Sinclair if Caleb Daniel cannot play for Vics

Coolangatta · May 31, 2022

PhatBoy said:
Assuming you can go with birth or childhood as origin, what would a NSW side look like these days? Hawk was born and raised in the Riverina

I don't know but NSW/QLD/ACT/TAS/NT would probably combine into an Allies side to compete against the big three states.

PhatBoy · May 31, 2022

Coolangatta said:
I don't know but NSW/QLD/ACT/TAS/NT would probably combine into an Allies side to compete against the big three states.

I think it would be a much stronger side than the original version

PhatBoy · May 31, 2022

Had no idea Smith and Breust were actually loosely from my part of the world!

bird_man · May 31, 2022

PhatBoy said:
Had no idea Smith and Breust were actually loosely from my part of the world!

Good Riverina boys.

We know bow to breed footballers.

bird_man · May 31, 2022

footyfan1978 said:
Saad ahead of Sinclair if Caleb Daniel cannot play for Vics

Sinclair would be well ahead of Saad on current form

Papa G · May 31, 2022

footyfan1978 said:
Is Caleb Daniel from the Victoria or WA?

SA

Miguel Sanchez · May 31, 2022

footyfan1978 said:
Is Caleb Daniel from the Victoria or WA?

Neither, South Australia (South Adelaide/Edwardstown JFC)

PhatBoy · May 31, 2022

bird_man said:
Good Riverina boys.

We know bow to breed footballers.

I’m Central West but Young and Temora are close enough to kind of throw my association into.

And my oath you do - even Ungarie has played it’s part in the footballing tapestry

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