00:00the state of origin teams we're going to start with new south wales i think there's a lot to
00:04talk about there we'll go to you leo but first i'll just run through uh the team so tedesco to
00:11oh casey mclean in that starting spot in the number three katoni staggs cooler moses cleary
00:17and in the forwards pain haas at reese robson mitch barnett hudson young dylan lucas isaiah
00:22yo and then on the bench cameron murray victor radley adam for noah blake abisai corussell
00:27ethan strange mark noah i'm gonna say and reserves huamale and katoa in the reserve so
00:34obviously a lot of changes there stephen crichton is out with the shoulder injury um finua blake has
00:40moved to the bench huamale has moved to reserves ethan strange is on the bench where do you want
00:47to start leo because i know that we have some strong feelings here lads first and foremost i just want
00:53to give a shout out to our good friend uh magdalena for the case mclean uh the shout out
00:57last week went viral too so um we don't want to credit but i think yeah she campaigned hard and
01:02we got what we wanted we got mclean in a starting jersey so i'm shout out mag here at zero
01:06tackle for
01:06that one um in terms of everything else there's a few to get through homole missing the side to me
01:13is just absolutely incredible and i genuinely can't believe it he like last week we just saw how
01:19damaging he was he had 140 post contact meters which is one of the most record like the highest record
01:24of post contact meters of all time overtaking jason tamalolo there and he ran for more than
01:29every other south forward on the field with their ball in hand as well so he's in career best form
01:34and the fact that he can't get a start is just really really disappointing i'm a big fan of dylan
01:39lucas as well but he's a left side back rower and we're playing a right set and then humole is
01:44a club
01:45right back rower so it just doesn't make sense to me um really disappointing but you know shout out to
01:50dylan lucas he's been playing incredible as well and hopefully he makes the most of his chances but
01:53um in terms of other selections as well i really thought i'd see cameron murray coming to the starting
01:5713 when he came on in game one he changed the whole complexity of the game he's just his rock
02:02work is
02:02insane his play the balls are insane as well so i would have loved to see isaiah yeah come into
02:07the
02:07front row to partner pain house but um yes we got murray on the bench as well and then obviously
02:13mark noonga we to was a comes in as well so i'm really interested to see how it plays out
02:17in the game
02:17because um yeah there's a few head scratches in that one there i think another one is mitch moses
02:23uh i'm not entirely sold on that one yeah i mean he wasn't able to play uh on monday monday
02:33night so
02:33he's clearly still trouble with the uh hamstring injury but lorry says he's good to go so how long
02:38they wait for him in camp i know they'll want to see some you know sprinting and some really uh
02:43fast
02:44movement at some point during this week of course before they go to melbourne um ethan strange like
02:49we all saw how good of a game he had in game one like it technically it is a winning
02:54side but it
02:55wasn't a great winning side so we knew change for him to come um and mitch moses you know we
03:00know what
03:00mitch moses can do in the blue jersey so it's not like it's a it's a terrible uh change but
03:04um ethan
03:05strange he might get his chance in the game we never know how it's going to go with hias you
03:09know all
03:09that sort of stuff as well so mitch moses he's another kicking option as well long-term kicking
03:14option um you know we saw him game one it was quite rinse and repeat with cleary of the long
03:18long kicking game um it's basically kicking on if you tackle every single time so it gives them a bit
03:24of a a bit of change of attack there as well so i'm happy to see mitch back in the
03:28blue jersey he's
03:28done the state very proud of in the past with the series win in our sun call 2024 so um
03:33i'm happy for
03:33mitch to get his go but yeah there's a few question marks around homole uh cameron murray and
03:40yeah of course um yeah katoni staggs as well i think there's been up and down as well so very
03:44uh
03:45very interesting it's interesting lee on that with the um the injuries it felt like laurie daly was
03:51very keen to have everybody given the injuries floating around look to clear it early like you're
03:55either in or you're out um so we know but then obviously things like uh what we saw with mitch
04:01seems to almost say well we'll back him in and see what happens how important is it from a coaching
04:05point of view to say look if it's bad news i know straight away i've got two weeks to plan
04:08or i've got
04:09a week and a half to plan um and then how much of it is depending on the player as
04:13to whether you take
04:14the risk over their durability it all depends as well how much work they did prior to game one
04:20with mitch moses in the halves and also mitch moses has played there before so there's plenty of
04:28previous you you praised magdalena for her selection of of of the center there that only
04:38happened by accident leo because he originally picked creighton so magdalena would be a better
04:44coach than laurie daly i think of origin um pain has is obviously a great addition to the front row
04:51now that front row got absolutely battered in game one in the first hour and let's remember what we
04:56were saying before game one we were asking where jackson ford was we were asking where terrell may
05:01was we were asking where key on columbatangi tangy was now i do i can assume that terrell may
05:07laurie daly may be a little bit scared off from him due to the west tigers form at the moment
05:13we'll talk about that later even columbatangi itself haven't been going great but i don't think
05:18columbatangi has been the problem there um but jackson ford is a surprising one and also what's
05:24surprising is that he's stuck with mitch barnett because i think mitch barnett was was quite poor
05:28at game one so i think that's a risk there is changes they're they're cosmetic changes in many
05:35ways or force changes i don't know if new south wales and laurie daly have reacted to that performance
05:42enough quite frankly i know they won but something helped them with 20 minutes to go and we all know
05:49what that was well that was um that was all what i was thinking about with ethan strange
05:55getting going to the bench because in the first when they had you know the right amount of people
06:00on the field let's say ethan strange was probably one of the best uh he looked like he was giving
06:06the
06:06most uh before before that happened and to move him to the bench like i don't know it's just one
06:13of
06:13those things like do you pick on form or do you pick on um structure phoenix i see that one
06:19a little
06:19bit like the james cedesco dylan edwards call yeah and now now i'm not saying ethan strange is quite
06:26up to the standard of mitchell moses yet but there are certain similarities in terms of how we can look
06:32at this there's incumbency versus the past and obviously cleary uh cleary has worked with moses
06:40before he's worked less less with ethan strange so i can understand it to an extent and i think ethan
06:47strange could play a great role off the bench anyway um so i i don't actually mind it if i'm
06:55honest
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