With Brad Fittler and Billy Slater naming their teams for State of Origin I, both states are in unfamiliar positions their opponents would know well.
Reece Walsh has been playing well enough to earn his debut courtesy of his electrifying form for Brisbane, but this is not from the classic Queensland playbook where the legacy of battles won is prized above all else.
Winning player of the series as a winger is the kind of thing that makes your Origin career live forever, but at 32 years old, with 21 appearances for Queensland under his belt, there's every chance Gagai's time in maroon now belongs to the past. Slater's side is brimming with youth, upside and the tantalising possibility of a bright future. David Fifita has been recalled after hitting the kind of form that makes him worth a million dollars.
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