Queensland dominate the halves position with Ben Hunt (1st), Mbye (third), Anthony Milford (fourth), Corey Norman (fifth) and Johnathan Thurston (sixth) leading the way.
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Cherry-Evans will hope to provide new Queensland coach Kevin Walters a friendly reminder of his talents at Friday’s session in a bid to add to his six Origin caps.
“He’s won premierships both at the Melbourne Storm and then, of course, up at the Cowboys past year and he’s just worked hard on his game for so long”.
Unless Walters gives one of the youngsters a last minute reprieve, or makes a maverick selection like Corey Norman, Moses Mbye or Ash Taylor (seriously…that’s what some people are talking about) it looks like Queensland fans are stuck with DCE.
The team will be officially announced on Tuesday night.
Corey Oates will be named despite some health concerns around dizzy spells and an irregular heartbeat that caused him issues against the Cowboys.
“He’s a big unit, I didn’t realise how big until we played them (Brisbane) earlier this year”, said Inglis, who revels on rugby league’s biggest stage under the atmosphere Origin generates.
Morgan believed Oates won’t repeat the mistake on his Origin debut on Wednesday but said he had experienced centre Greg Inglis on his inside as a safeguard.
Queensland captain Cameron Smith leads the way with the most points (750) and best average (68). At the start of last season, Feldt had been sent back to the Queensland Cup by the Cowboys, only to return to the top grade, cement his place on the wing and score the pivotal try in a grand final.
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NSW won’t allow Nate Myles’ underwhelming NRL form to lull them into a false sense of security ahead of the State of Origin opener. Matt Gillett (Brisbane Broncos), 12.
