Will be interesting to see who they pick next match. Get the feeling we will be going round and round for the next 2-3 seasons picking guys that are club standard, but below state of orgin standard.
Out of Quinn, Turner, McManus, David Williams, Joel Monaghan, El Masri, Cooper (in attack), Lyon and Grothe have truely look SOO standard at rep level. Apart from Cooper in defence I don't think anyone has.
Then you got your backrowers Tupou, Gallen, Hoffman, Laffranchi, Watmough, Glen Stewart, Lewis and Creagh. Struggling to find one that rep standard consistently. Most have had the odd good game here and there, but reckon their poor games out value their good games.
Then lets look at the front row Kite, Mason, O'Meley, White, Clinton, Perry and even Poore I'm not sold on.
Lets not even begin with the halves.
You can pick whoever you want for NSW and you will still wont have a SOO standard side. The quality not there.
This is the side I reckon would get closest to Queensland, wont help you in the long term though. But if you want some price back in the jumper, the only way to go rather then pick another bunch of rookies.
Gidley, Hayne, Jennings, Cooper, El Masri, Barrett, Kimmorely, Weyman, Ennis, Poore, Hindmarsh, Ryan, O'Donnell. Res: Wing, TLL/Houston, Fitzgibbon, Simpson