Queensland’s generation of Origin champions will be front and centre of voting on the game’s 14th Immortal next month after a change to eligbility rules.
Champion hooker Cameron Smith, along with fellow Queensland Origin icons Billy Slater and Johnathan Thurston, will come under consideration as the next rugby league Immortal after an NRL rule change.
That restriction was lowered to three years on Thursday as the NRL announced plans for new Hall of Fame inductees every year. Slater and Thurston, who both retired in 2018, will also be in the running alongside fellow Maroons teammate Darren Lockyer, rugby league’s all-time leading try-scorer Ken Irvine and six-time premiership-winner Ron Coote.
Given a six-year hiatus, the NRL will announce 11 new men’s players, six women’s players, two coaches, two referees and four rugby league contributors to the Hall of Fame in an August 21 ceremony.
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