NSW will beat Queensland... in 2019!

[redbur95]

This is great. The cockroaches working at the Daily Telegraph have given up on trying to justify their drivel on why NSW are a better team than Queensland and shown us why they will be the better team in 5 years.

It's like they're saying "OK, you'll win 13 series in a row, but you just wait for 2019. You just wait..."



Can 2019 NSW State of Origin team beat Queensland after passing of Maroon champs? | News.com.au

Slowly but surely an incredible era of Queensland talent is strolling over the hill.

Within the next five years, a collection of Maroon champions will have left the scene. It will be the Blues' chance to get back on even footing.

Taking into account which players may be phased out of both sides over the next five years, we've had an educated guess as to how the next-generation Maroons and Blues may look.

All of a sudden, Queensland doesn't have an obvious edge in class. Here is a look at the key areas.

QUEENSLAND 2019

1. Ben Barba (24) 2. Justin O'Neill (22) 3. Dane Gagai (23) 4. Greg Inglis (27) 5. Edrick Lee (21) 6. Anthony Milford (19) 7. Daly Cherry-Evans (24) 8. Josh McGuire (23) 9. Jake Friend (23) 10. Matt Scott (28) 11. Chris McQueen (26) 12. Josh Papalii (21) 13. Matt Gillett (25). Interchange: 14. Michael Morgan (22) 15. Korbin Sims (22) 16. Aidan Guerra (25) 17. Dylan Napa (21)

NSW 2019

1. Josh Dugan (23) 2. Will Hopoate (21) 3. Jarryd Hayne (25) 4. Michael Jennings (25) 5. Jorge Taufua (22) 6. Luke Brooks (19) 7. Adam Reynolds (23) 8. Andrew Fifita (24) 9. Mitch Rein (23) 10. Aaron Woods (22) 11. Boyd Cordner (21) 12. Josh Jackson (23) 13. Trent Merrin (24). Interchange: 14. Josh Reynolds (24) 15. Ryan James (22) 16. David Klemmer (20) 17. Bryce Cartwright (19)

EXPERIENCE

Nine players from this NSW line-up have already played Origin, while just six of the Queenslanders have been there before. So the nod here goes to the Blues - although, let's face it, the guys who have played for NSW during the current era haven't had a great time of things.

Also, halfback Cherry-Evans will likely be a seasoned Maroons superstar five years down the track and is the only half from either team to have played Origin.

We could have left Mitchell Pearce in the NSW team, given he is still just 24, but ran with the widely held view that Rabbitohs playmaker Adam Reynolds will get a crack at the No.7 jersey in coming years.

Both sides will retain a strong core of experience in the forwards. Should Jarryd Hayne still be in action for the Blues, he could overtake former captain Brad Fittler's record of 31 games for NSW.

VERDICT: NSW

SPINE
Based on the fact Cherry-Evans should cement himself in the champion category in coming seasons, you've got to go with Queensland here.

Halfback rival Reynolds is an unknown property at the higher level and yet to assert himself in the high-stakes world of NRL finals - to the extent that he was deemed not ready for Origin as Souths bombed out last season.

With Milford and Brooks at five-eighth, you have a potential superstar on either side, though both teenagers are unproven quantities so early in their careers.

Brooks is the great white hope of NSW, so highly regarded he has been branded the next Andrew Johns.

Future Queensland hooker Jake Friend was unlucky not to get a nod for the World Cup campaign, so we'll give him the thumbs up over promising Dragons rake Mitch Rein.

In the battle of the fullbacks, it's a case of splitting hairs between two brilliant but erratic talents in Barba and Dugan.

VERDICT: Queensland

FORWARDS
Our future NSW team has four big men who boast Origin experience. Then there are the rookies: Titans prop Ryan James, Bulldogs backrower Josh Jackson, Dogs prop David Klemmer and Penrith tyro Bryce Cartwright.

Queensland also have four capped players, while their new men are Josh McGuire, Korbin Sims, Aidan Guerra and Dylan Napa.

The already-blooded Blues forwards should be in their prime, led by reigning Dally M positional players of the year - prop Andrew Fifita and ¬second-rower Boyd Cordner.

Maroons prop Matt Scott will by then be channelling Petero Civoniceva as a veteran, but Papalii will likely grow into a monstrous force.

The Blues enjoy an edge in size through three monsters in Fifita, James and the hugely promising Klemmer.

VERDICT: NSW

OUTSIDE BACKS
Our theoretical Blues are huge and powerful on the flanks. The only newcomer is Manly wing dynamo Jorge Taufua.

Established stars Jarryd Hayne and Michael Jennings will still be carving up in the centres and one-game NSW superstar Will Hopoate will be back on the wing after his Mormon mission.

The Maroons aren't bad ¬either. Greg Inglis should be in Immortal territory by then. Justin O'Neill, Dane Gagai and Edrick Lee are handy talents. But outside of the incomparable Inglis the Blues look to have an edge in class here.

VERDICT: NSW

WHO WILL WIN?
NSW has claimed three of our four categories, so on that basis we can declare the Blues will reclaim supremacy in the future.

However, as we've stressed above, Queensland's ownership of budding great Cherry-Evans is a massive factor in the Maroons' favour.

Also significant will be the incredible culture of success developed by the Maroons during their unprecedented eight-series winning streak in Origin - which could stretch to a decade and beyond before their champion players call it quits.

Will NSW be capable of beating Queensland in coming seasons?

Certainly the teams look much more even on paper.

My favourite line is "It (2019) will be the Blues' chance to get back on even footing." It may well be, but you imply that by then we will have won 13 series in a row! Gold!

 

[Alec]

I'm guessing this is satire, but either way I personally don't like seeing teams picked so far ahead. It's like saying that no rookies are going to come through.

 

[Grimmiq]

1) Dugan - Kicked out of NRL or taken big $$$ overseas.
2) Will Hopoate - Fair Enough
3) Jarryd Hayne - No way this bloke's knees will last another 5-6 years.
4) Michael Jennings - Only in the team because of speed, will lose some of that at age 30.
5) Jorge Taufua - Fair Enough
6) Luke Brooks - Based off 1 game, against the 3rd to last placed Dragons, after their season was over.
7) Adam Reynolds - Overrated
8) Andrew Fifita - Playing Union
9) Mitch Rein - Forgot who this guy was
10) Aaron Woods - Didn't step up in 2013, hard to judge for the future.
11) Boyd Cordner - Fair Enough
12) Josh Jackson - Fair Enough
13) Trent Merrin - AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
14) Josh Reynolds - Will continue to be useless as a bench player
15) Ryan James - Learoyd-Lahrs v2.0
16) David Klemmer - Fair Enough
17) Bryce Cartwright - Who?

 

[broncos4life]

What a pointless article.

My Favourite bit is the assumption that brooks will be there based on one game. One game. And as has already been said against shit opposition

Don't get me wrong brooks could be a superstar but if debut games of overhyped teenagers were a measure of future performance then we have no halves crisis as the champion five eight corey Norman has just lead us to 2 premierships

 

[Rhys van Beurden]

Why would Michael Morgan be our bench player? Surely it would be a Segeyaro-type player, if we used one at all.

 

[broncos4life]

Why would Michael Morgan be our bench player? Surely it would be a Segeyaro-type player, if we used one at all.

And he's average. Also no Ben Teo? he's only one year older than Gillett. This article is mind blowing stupid

 

[Mister Wright]

You'd think Darius Boyd will still be playing in 2019.

 

[Alec]

Why would Michael Morgan be our bench player? Surely it would be a Segeyaro-type player, if we used one at all.

Yeah, Segeyaro is the only logical choice at the moment. I don't think he's far off playing for Australia off the bench either (just DCE who stands in his way for both, but he'll be in the halves soon enough).

 

[Charmamba]

Segeyaro will be the starting #9 in due course not Friend imo, B.Hunt will also be pushing a place in the side.


Even with their make believe teams, QLD looks to have the better side still and it shows just how well QLD is developing talent. Imagine if all this talent stays at QLD clubs as well!

 

[Cult]

I still don't think in 2019 if these exact two teams played each other New South Wales would win. They'd still be trying to bash us instead of playing rugby league. And there's a lot more tries in that QLD team as well and things would just appear out of no where with almost the whole future broncos spine (Barba, Milford, DCE). Maybe try for 2020 NSW.

 

[Broncoman]

Surprised that Dean Britt wasn't in that team from what I saw in the under 20's Origin and from the under 20 Storm games he looked like a really good prop that has potential to be a good NRL player.
[MENTION=8263]Grimmiq[/MENTION] Bryce Cartwright is a standout player in the Penrith Under 20's side that won the premiership last year