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Message: [QUOTE="Big Pete, post: 3532069, member: 1899"] It has been one of those series for NSW. If you had asked me at the start of the season what a full-strength NSW side would look like, the first 15 names I'd give you would look like... 1. James Tedesco 2. Brian To'o 3. Latrell Mitchell 4. Tom Trbojevic 5. Joseph Suaalii 6. Jarome Luai 7. Nathan Cleary 8. Payne Haas 9. Damien Cook 10. Jake Trbojevic 11. Angus Crichton 12. Liam Martin 13. Isaah Yeo 14. Junior Paulo 15. Cameron Murray With 16 and 17 coming down to form. If I had to pick two players it would have been Reagan Campbell-Gillard and Jack Wighton, but those positions would be wide open. Then you just go through the list - Tedesco has had had a bad slump, Latrell got injured on the eve of Origin I and has missed the entire series. Tom never had enough confidence to go all out and eventually picks up a pec injury when he does try to over-extend. Suaalii signs with Rugby and it just seems like he's regressed. Cleary tears his hamstring after Game I, out for the series. Jake injures his hamstring and misses the opening two games. Angus is slowly but surely getting himself right after some mental health problems, and needs time away from the pressure cooker. Even a player like Murray has had injury issues and hasn't been as involved as seasons gone by. Then you look at the potential players who could come in like Campbell Graham, Keaon Koloamatangi, Shaun Lane etc. and they've all had injury setbacks. Then there's players like Jack de Belin who should be involved in the system, but you can't pick him because of the way he destroyed his career. Some of the selections have been quite comical and the Blues braintrust has really panicked under the slightest hint of adversity. It really did seem like they based a lot of selections around how the players performed the weekend of selections - which was about as useful as judging players based on City vs. Country. Especially as that went on and the real contest was trying to get yourself ruled out of playing. [/QUOTE]

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