My boy and I are having a high stakes bet on who will be picked for the NSW origin team.
Please help me win so he'll do the dishes for a week and I won't have to eat GYG for dinner if he wins.
What are your top tips for NSW selection including the bench? So he doesn't think I've cheated, please be sure to include as many Eels players as possible, he knows how biased I am about them.
Recently copped my first jersey for a decent price and was wondering why it's so long? Are jerseys supposed to be worn tucked in or are they designed to be this long. Other than that the fit is great.
We can only hope.
Team named v Storms. Unchanged, Junior starting for now.
1–13
Joash Papalii
Brian Kelly
Jordan Samrani
Sean Russell
Josh Addo-Carr
Ronald Volkman
Mitchell Moses
Luca Moretti
Tallyn Da Silva
Junior Paulo
Kelma Tuilagi
Jack Williams
Jack de Belin
Bench
Dylan Walker
Saxon Pryke
Toni Mataele
Charlie Guymer
Extended
Apa Twidle
Teancum Brown
Harrison Edwards
Araz Nanva
Jonah Pezet
We've got some talented players but none more consistent than Moses. I sometimes feel bad for the guy, I feel like he could be getting way better results if he played for a more consistent team.
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I’m an Eels member living in Townsville, so being there last night made that one feel extra good. I absolutely love when we beat the Cows.
I honestly had a feeling all week we had one of those random big performances in us. Not a perfect game, not an 80-minute clinic… but one where we’d scrap, stay in it, and find enough big moments to get the job done.
That’s exactly what happened.
There were times the Cowboys had us stretched everywhere. Watching Chester and Purdue turn us inside out at times wasn’t exactly fun from the stands, and there were definitely moments where it looked like momentum had completely swung.
But we just kept hanging around.
Jordan Samrani was enormous. That late try where he stepped through and backed himself gave us life, and then that run down the sideline to put Joash over a couple of minutes later… unreal. Both of them were massive when it mattered most.
Then you get to golden point and Mitchell Moses does what elite players do.
Far from perfect, but effort, grit and belief were there all night. We didn’t always get it right, but we did more than enough.
Watching that finish live in a Townsville crowd as an Eels supporter… that’s one I’ll remember for a long time.
Proud member. Up the Eels.
P.S I lost my voice and drank enough XXXX Gold my Garmin went flat from counting the stairs I climbed during the night.