Listening to some ex NSW players today whinge about City V Country game being axed...it's a complete waste of time and not taken serious by anyone these days. If Qld can pick an 11 year dominant winning Origin team without such a game in their state, I'm pretty sure NSW can do th same (though apparently they are happy to only win 3 years in a row, and then call it the death of Origin). There's a thing called talent scouts that grab kids from the Country at a young age these days, move on, the game was important 15 years ago but not today...a waste of time and money. You want the Country to feel included in the game, then start playing some NRL games in the bush more often, the crowds would be as big as Sydney gets at many of it's weekly games anyhow.
