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Lyon's rep in tatters after snubbing Blues
Brad Walter | June 25, 2008
MANLY star Jamie Lyon has escaped suspension but faces an unofficial representative black ban after turning his back on the NSW Origin team.
With Mark Gasnier ruled out of next Wednesday night's series decider due to a back problem, Lyon would have been the selectors' first choice to replace the Dragons centre - but he told Blues coach Craig Bellamy he did not want to play Origin. Bellamy, who had grown tired of criticism over Lyon's omission from the NSW side this year, revealed yesterday after naming a team with five new faces from the one thrashed 30-0 by Queensland in Origin II that Lyon had knocked back the chance to play in Brisbane when Gasnier was in doubt with a hamstring injury.
As a result, Lyon was not considered when Gasnier became unavailable for the decider and Canberra's Joel Monaghan was handed his Origin debut, alongside 19-year-old Sydney Roosters halfback Mitchell Pearce, who replaces injured Bronco Peter Wallace in the No.7 jersey. Roosters five-eighth Braith Anasta, who has earned a recall after Greg Bird suffered a knee injury playing for Cronulla last weekend, joins Parramatta winger Jarryd Hayne and Newcastle prop Ben Cross as the other changes. Hayne (suspended) and Cross (broken thumb) played in the series opener but were unavailable for Origin II. The Maroons have named an unchanged team.
Bellamy said that Pearce and Anasta were chosen in part because of their club combination, while Monaghan's selection follows the four days he spent with the team before Origin II on stand-by for Gasnier. If the St George Illawarra captain had not recovered to play in Origin II, some members of the Blues camp believed Lyon would have been the first player suspended for pulling out of a representative match without a medical reason since Bulldogs great Terry Lamb was stood down from club football after he withdrew from the NSW team in 1987 to be with his pregnant wife Kim.
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Wow, I thought you'd be itching to play origin.. Looks like some players really just don't care.
Brad Walter | June 25, 2008
MANLY star Jamie Lyon has escaped suspension but faces an unofficial representative black ban after turning his back on the NSW Origin team.
With Mark Gasnier ruled out of next Wednesday night's series decider due to a back problem, Lyon would have been the selectors' first choice to replace the Dragons centre - but he told Blues coach Craig Bellamy he did not want to play Origin. Bellamy, who had grown tired of criticism over Lyon's omission from the NSW side this year, revealed yesterday after naming a team with five new faces from the one thrashed 30-0 by Queensland in Origin II that Lyon had knocked back the chance to play in Brisbane when Gasnier was in doubt with a hamstring injury.
As a result, Lyon was not considered when Gasnier became unavailable for the decider and Canberra's Joel Monaghan was handed his Origin debut, alongside 19-year-old Sydney Roosters halfback Mitchell Pearce, who replaces injured Bronco Peter Wallace in the No.7 jersey. Roosters five-eighth Braith Anasta, who has earned a recall after Greg Bird suffered a knee injury playing for Cronulla last weekend, joins Parramatta winger Jarryd Hayne and Newcastle prop Ben Cross as the other changes. Hayne (suspended) and Cross (broken thumb) played in the series opener but were unavailable for Origin II. The Maroons have named an unchanged team.
Bellamy said that Pearce and Anasta were chosen in part because of their club combination, while Monaghan's selection follows the four days he spent with the team before Origin II on stand-by for Gasnier. If the St George Illawarra captain had not recovered to play in Origin II, some members of the Blues camp believed Lyon would have been the first player suspended for pulling out of a representative match without a medical reason since Bulldogs great Terry Lamb was stood down from club football after he withdrew from the NSW team in 1987 to be with his pregnant wife Kim.
Read the rest at
http://www.leaguehq.com.au/news/origin/ ... 47748.html
Wow, I thought you'd be itching to play origin.. Looks like some players really just don't care.
