The New South Wales Blues will be fielding 11 players with next to no experience at Suncorp Stadium in Game Two of the State of Origin tonight.
NSW Coach Laurie Daley said he believes his players will be ready to embrace the occasion.
The last Blues team to visit Origin’s most intimidating arena were decimated in a 52-6 record loss and for the must-win Game Two tonight, seven players will face a sea of some 50,000 Maroons for the very first time.
Five-eighth James Maloney is the only member of the NSW backline to have played a single Origin game in Brisbane while in the forwards debutants Jack Bird and Tyson Frizell have been handed Origin’s toughest introduction.
Josh Jackson, Andrew Fifita and David Klemmer have each only played a solitary Origin game at Suncorp Stadium.
The New South Wales Blues will face the Queensland Maroons in State of Origin 2 at 10 tonight.
Source: NRL
