State Of Origin 2010 General Discussion

[IronShark]

Might as well call it State Of Preference.

Yeah, it's actually play for the State they tell you to - and try to make it look convincing.

 

[snowman]

i thought the rule was where you played your first rep game... most of them played it in qld

 

[dier]

Okay, Willie Tonga is from Canberra. Not Nsw or Qld. Adrian Lam, while born in PNG came to Qld at a very young age.

What about some of the NSW players:
Willie Mason (New Zealand)
Peter Sterling (Toowoomba)
James McManus (Scotland, Raised in NT)
Ken Nagas ( Bunderberg)
Joel Monaghan (Canberra)
Hazem El Masri (Lebanon)
Peter Wallace (Melbourne)

That is just some I remember off the top of my head. Nsw will find anything to whinge about. Plus Iron, it is well known for your hatred and conspiracy theories for origin.

 

[baanya]

Hilarious, some of you blokes still fall for this bull****! "It's about the team, blah blah!!" - IT'S ABOUT THE RATINGS YOU IDIOTS!

You yourself point out that Folau is not a game winner, he is not vital to the team, so why reward him for deserting the code by honouring him with a spot in what is laughingly referred to as the "showpiece" of the code? Because people will tune in to watch him, of course. He's been on every TV show, newspaper and radio for the last two weeks.

r u seriously trying to say that less people would turn up to the game or watch it on tv if Folau wasnt picked.??.. his inclusion or exclusion would not make a lick of difference to ratings or attendance...

same situation with Hayne also...

 

[A.Snowden]

I'm pretty sure you play for the state in which you first played league/registered player...

 

[snowman]

i thought it was first rep game, thats why inlgis qualifies for qld

 

[Mark^Bastard]

i thought it was first rep game, thats why inlgis qualifies for qld

Inglis does NOT qualify for QLD.

That's why at the start of the origin he has to give his junior club as Bowraville Tigers.

Google Bowraville if you want.

That was just straight up QLD cheating.

 

[A.Snowden]

Inglis was born in Kempsey, played his junior footy at Bowraville and played his first senior match at Hunter Sports High school Newcastle...so he is very much a New South welshmen!

 

[chunk67]

It is first Senior game im pretty sure... either way i dont know how G.I classes himself as a QLD'er ?

 

[snowman]

Inglis was born in Kempsey, played his junior footy at Bowraville and played his first senior match at Hunter Sports High school Newcastle...so he is very much a New South welshmen!

i realise this, i went to hunter as well, but look up the origin rule book, it where you play your first rep game, look up inglis, his first REP game was for the mighty burleigh bears

 

[Mark^Bastard]

i realise this, i went to hunter as well, but look up the origin rule book, it where you play your first rep game, look up inglis, his first REP game was for the mighty burleigh bears

THAT IS INCORRECT.

 

[snowman]

which part mark

 

[baanya]

So what does it say that these players who could be playing for NSW are instead wanting to play for QLD... no one is holding a gun to their heads...

it speaks volumns about NSW!

 

[snowman]

i would like everyone to pay attention to an email i archived, i sent this when i first found out G.I was playing for queensland, i was in belguim at the time so i was a bit slow on the up take as i sent it about a week before the first game.


From: ************
Sent: May 17 2006 0921:am
To: ******* (******@hotmail.com)
Hi *****,
Origin rules state that its where a player plays their first senior representitive game. Greg Inglis never played rep football in NSW, but did play rep football in QLD, therefore deeming him a Queenslander under the origin rule structure.
I hope this helps,

Kind regards,

*****

From: ****** [*******@hotmail.com]
Sent: May 15 2006 17:49pm
To: RLA
Subject: Origin rules

Hi,
Just wanting to clarify how greg inglis can play for qld when he went to school in newcastle?

for state of privacy reasons i did leave a chunk of the email out, and also names, but the person who replied is a very high authority figure in the game

 

[Mark^Bastard]

i would like everyone to pay attention to an email i archived, i sent this when i first found out G.I was playing for queensland, i was in belguim at the time so i was a bit slow on the up take as i sent it about a week before the first game.


From: ************
Sent: May 17 2006 0921:am
To: ******* (******@hotmail.com)
Hi *****,
Origin rules state that its where a player plays their first senior representitive game. Greg Inglis never played rep football in NSW, but did play rep football in QLD, therefore deeming him a Queenslander under the origin rule structure.
I hope this helps,

Kind regards,

*****

From: ****** [*******@hotmail.com]
Sent: May 15 2006 17:49pm
To: RLA
Subject: Origin rules

Hi,
Just wanting to clarify how greg inglis can play for qld when he went to school in newcastle?

for state of privacy reasons i did leave a chunk of the email out, and also names, but the person who replied is a very high authority figure in the game

This is what CHEATING Qld did to get him to play. NSW later uncovered that he had in fact played a senior rep game for NSW but it was then too late. That is why at the start of origin when every player says their qualifying club of origin he is forced to say Bowraville Tigers.

Bowraville hate the prick because of his lack of loyalty.

 

[peachey]

It should be where you are born!

 

[Mark^Bastard]

Greg Inglis' Dad defends son's decision to be a Maroon
Peter Badel
June 29, 2008 12:00AM

GREG Inglis's father has denied the Maroons star deliberately misled the ARL in his bid to represent Queensland.

The Blues' nemesis in Game II, Kempsey-born Inglis is considered the most controversial defector in State of Origin history after he pledged his allegiance to the Maroons three years ago.

That decision came despite Inglis having played his first senior game at 16 for Newcastle's Hunter Sports High.

Channel 9 uncovered footage of him playing for the school.

Under Origin eligibility rules, Inglis should have declared himself a Blue, but Wade Blair insists his son did not dupe officials as part of his childhood ambition to play for the Maroons.

According to Blair, Inglis believed playing in the Arrive Alive Cup – Australia's premier schoolboy league competition – did not constitute a senior-level fixture.

"There was some confusion there," Blair said.

"It would be good for someone from the ARL to stand up and make it clear what the rule is so kids like Greg understand it.

"He was asked where he played his first senior football and to his mind he didn't think senior football meant a schoolboys game for Hunter Sports High.

"At the time (he was asked to state his allegiance), Greg was playing senior football for Norths Devils, so he put himself down for Queensland.

"He didn't think schoolboy football counted as senior football. Then later on the media (Channel 9) showed a clip of him playing for Hunter Sports."

Blair said Inglis's mother Christine had been angered by criticism of the Storm sensation for choosing Queensland.

"Greg was a little bit confused but he doesn't worry about what the media says about it any more," Blair said.

"His mum gets pretty upset, she stresses about it, but he tells her not to worry.

"It used to get to Greg a bit but he loves playing for Queensland. He's happy where he is and he's staying there."

Fresh speculation in the wake of his scintillating display in Origin II claimed the 21-year-old played his first senior game at 16 for Queensland's Wavell High, which would

make him a bona fide Maroon.

But Hunter coach Steve Dunn confirmed Inglis played for the Newcastle school at 16 before being transferred to Wavell at the Storm's behest the following year.

"There was some talk the other day that he was actually brought to Queensland before his 16th birthday but I was coach of the team. He played for us at 16, he's a Blue," Dunn said.

But Inglis's eligibility battle pales in significance to the real setbacks in his life; traumas that placed a sage head on young shoulders.

Leaving home at 16 to chase the NRL dream was hard enough. Confronting death twice, just four months after he was legally able to drink alcohol, could have sent Inglis's careering off the rails.

In May 2005, just a month after he made his NRL debut, Inglis lost his six-month-old step-sister Tamieka to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

Within three months, he was again in mourning, his uncle Stephen Blair killed in a road accident on the morning of Storm prop Robbie Kearns' last game at Olympic Park.

The twin tragedies could have broken Inglis, but not once did he contemplate walking away. Instead, Tamieka and Stephen are his driving forces.

"They are pretty much my inspiration now, they keep me going," he says. "Every time I run out on to the field I think about them."

Inglis was never likely to succumb to peer pressure. While contemporaries were seduced by booze, babes and bright lights, Inglis began saving for his first home.

He bought his first place in Melbourne at 19. He has since added an investment property at Biggera Waters on the Gold Coast, and is now scouring the Redcliffe Peninsula looking to expand Inglis Inc.

"He was always good with his money," recalls Adrian Coolwell, a family friend who took in Inglis when he moved to Brisbane at 16.

"I'd give him $20 for a night out and a couple of days later I'd ask if he needed more money. He'd say, 'Nah, I'm sweet, I've got $15 left."

And Inglis knew where he was going. At 17, he asked Coolwell if he could join him for a day at work in the Brisbane Watchhouse. There he stared at hardcore crims and drug-addled detainees, and vowed to make something of his life.

"The people in there really opened his eyes," Coolwell said. "He saw the seedier side of life . . . people high on drugs, those under observation to avoid self-harm.

"He had a look that said, 'How can people look like this, how can their lives become like this?."

Inglis is determined to use his fame in more productive ways, like helping Aboriginal youth and preaching the perils of substance abuse.

"I'd like to see a lot of indigenous people live a healthy life," Inglis said. "I'd like to see them treated equal to everyone else. "You know, they can get into alcohol, drugs, stuff that can put them off track. I want Aboriginal kids to be better at what they do with their lives."

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/nrl/why-greg-inglis-is-a-maroon/story-e6frepaf-1111116761552

End of story.

 

[A.Snowden]

i realise this, i went to hunter as well, but look up the origin rule book, it where you play your first rep game, look up inglis, his first REP game was for the mighty burleigh bears

when were you at hunter mate? I finished there in 01'

 

[Google News]

Mitchell Pearce's poison chalice - Herald Sun

Source:http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=...607147&usg=AFQjCNErl6Swtu_tNmNgbRw1qGZbFHTkaw

Mitchell Pearce's poison chalice
Nick Walshaw
June 12, 2010 12:00AM

MITCHELL Pearce is the answer. Our future. Tagged up like all those other bloody carcasses set to watch Origin II from homes in Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Gold Coast, even Newcastle.

Which makes you wonder why anyone would crave to be the future of NSW Origin? Honestly.

Lumped with a crown that's sat atop the heads of Jarrod Mullen, Greg Bird and Terry Campese. On Pearce, Michael Jennings and Jamal Idris. Even poor old James McManus was in the mix for 80 minutes.

All up the future of Origin has played 11 games. Five, including Pearce, lasting no further than their debut. Which must surely leave this resurrected Rooster feeling a tad, er, nervous?

"It might if I listened to that stuff," the rookie NSW halfback shrugs. "But for me Origin is all about this week. About this game. And if I don't perform, I don't deserve to be here."

Of all the footballers chewed up by NSW over the past five years, none have fallen harder than our young guns. Kids on whom Blues coaches, selectors and suits have loudly proclaimed the next decade exists.

Campese and Mullen were lauded by selectors. Idris the 'X-factor' for downing Maroons. While Bird, the man brought in when Campo went out, was hailed our very own Wally Lewis.

"He is Wally Lewis-like in the way he plays," Blues selector Bob Fulton oozed. "Like Wally, he's intimidating. He has that air about him. I'm not saying he is a carbon copy - but he has that consistency at this level."

Incredibly now, only Pearce remains.

Part of a NSW Origin machine which, over the past four losing series, has used 61 players and a dozen halves pairings. Campo gone. Jennings not among the State's five best centres. While Bird, seemingly, is rated more wally than Wally.

And somewhere amid all this, Pearce is fighting to break the trend. Two years after his only Origin game, the future of NSW is again being thrust on this playmaker born only two years before The King retired.

"But Andrew Johns gets my vote anyway," he laughs when quizzed on the greatest Origin player ever. "Just his influence, his toughness ... he was the king at this level."

Indeed, this is heartbeat now driving all 89kg of Pearce.

Motivating this kid raised on the magic of Joey Johns. Refined by his brother Matthew. A footballer whose bond with the sky blue jersey is signified by that Pearce tattoo inked deep into his forearm.

"So I'm not here for the ride," the son of Origin immortality continues. "The way Joey controlled things, I want to give NSW that direction. Be here 10 years if I can."

Sounds like someone is ready to become the future of NSW Origin then?

"The future?" he smiles. "The future doesn't matter if we don't win Wednesday."

 

[PMQ_Tony]

Good bye Bellamy, see ya Fulton, on ya bike Daley and don't let the door hit u on your way out Gerrard!!!!!!!