The shadow of the specialist hooker replacing Tom Trbojevic with last year’s series on the line looms large over the two Origin sides picked this week.
It is 20 years since Steve Folkes led a repurposing of the humble rugby league bench, jamming a 19-year-old Sonny Bill Williams on his and terrorising tired defenders en route to Canterbury’s last premiership., Queensland duly terrorising the veteran hooker en route to another series win.after Trbojevic went down three minutes into an emphatic Maroons win. Brad Fittler’s Origin coaching career ended along with Trbojevic’s season.
Seven of them have been to outside backs or halves, with at least another five backs going down with other game-ending injuries across the same period.Selwyn Cobbo “I might even create one for him, who knows. We’ll build what’s best for the team, but that might be taken out of our hands.Getty Alongside Cobbo, Titans prop Mo Fotuaika and debutant J’maine Hopgood, Slater’s is a smaller bench, but an injury to every single starting Maroons player is covered considering Hunt can play halves and Cobbo centre, wing and fullback.
But cover for every single starting position though in case of injury, HIA or miscellaneous misadventure?
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