QLD State of Origin 2019 Thread

No Worries wrote:News just in: 8 QLD players have come down with conjunctivitis and have been quarantined and can't train, 4 have shingles and have gone to hospital for observation, Milf has returned to Bronco's training because Wayne said so and JT wants to play and in an uncanny coincidence Boyd has fell off a futon and has been left with a cut over his eye and is in doubt.

Pieman wrote:

Napa is the only one out of that list who may have been picked last year. The rest, no.

And holmes, well they picked him in the Aus team anyway after Mal said the suspension would carry on to the Aus team.. sooo.. good stuff

Fact is, all of those guys - bar possibly napa - have only come into contention in rep teams last and this year because of injury.

QRL wrote:Johnathan Thurston has been ruled out of the opening match of the 2017 Holden State of Origin series, the XXXX Queensland Maroons confirmed today.

Pieman wrote:It was supposed to be a 12 month suspension from rep. Not a ban from origin that year.
Mal literally came out and said it would apply to the australian team then he conveniently forgot about it when naming the side at the end of the year.

MILFORD IS MISSED
THE Queensland Rugby League’s decision to ban 10 members of its Emerging Origin program for 12 months has not made my life as Australian coach any easier.

While I am all about picking the best players available for the Kangaroos, I am also a big believer in a player earning that right by serving their apprenticeship by playing for their state first.

So as I cast my eye ahead to the Four Nations at the end of the year, when the Kangaroos will pick a squad of 24, I look at a guy like Anthony Milford and wonder about the damage that one night out has done.

Anthony is in terrific form and if he keeps playing the way he is would not look out of place in a green and gold jersey. But he won’t be picked for Queensland this year, a ban that I agree with and it will count against him.

I would have loved to have seen him handle Origin before handing him a Test jersey, but for this year at least, we won’t get that chance.

surmo13 wrote:

Nope, it was a QRL-imposed origin ban.

Did Mal actually say that he was going to carry over the bans to the Kangaroos, or just that he agreed with the ban, because all i can find is an article he wrote on april 8th of last year, which says the following:


http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/nrl/mal-meninga-anthony-milfords-origin-ban-will-also-cost-him-a-debut-test-jumper/news-story/50c7ac087fa600cd911ef5587643750d?nk=a241c7218341e0c9d74922fdde7a002e-1495670766

Ice wrote:No no no, Mal was saying that he would have liked to see Milford (and others) play for their state before he gave them a possible Aus jersey but it wasn't possible now, because They were no chance of playing for their state, so if he wanted to choose them he'd obviously be picking them without state jerseys.

Nowhere does that quote indicate he was banning them from Aus selection.

Pieman wrote:
Sure, I must have a dodgy memory of the events but still -

JTrbo.
S Boyd.
Mclean.
Holmes.
Mansour?
Moylan?

All selected before playing SOO.
Prob a few more too under meninga's watch that I cant remember.

No Worries wrote:The Broncos winger missed training on Sunday but is expected to join in the side's final session on Tuesday, according to Channel Seven's Chris Garry.

Last year the Queensland camp was hit with a stomach bug and Aidan Guerra, Matt Scott and Corey Oates were on light training duties due to illness, while Jacob Lillyman was placed in quarantine.
They even call out that it's groundhog day

No Worries wrote:The Broncos winger missed training on Sunday but is expected to join in the side's final session on Tuesday, according to Channel Seven's Chris Garry.

Last year the Queensland camp was hit with a stomach bug and Aidan Guerra, Matt Scott and Corey Oates were on light training duties due to illness, while Jacob Lillyman was placed in quarantine.
:lol2: They even call out that it's groundhog day

No Worries wrote:Fun fact: QLD bench forwards were playing winning when Corby got convicted. Too old too slowmuch experience