I'll edit this when the teams get announced but it looks like being: VB New South Wales Blues 1.Josh Dugan 2.James McManus 3.Josh Morris 4.Michael Jennings 5.Brett Morris 6.James Maloney 7.Mitchell Pearce 8.James Tamou 9.Robbie Farah (c) 10.Aaron Woods 11.Luke Lewis 12.Ryan Hoffman 13.Greg Bird 14.Boyd Cordner 15.Trent Merrin 16.Andrew Fifita 17.Anthony Watmough vs XXXX Queensland Maroons 1.Billy Slater 2.Darius Boyd 3.Greg Inglis 4.Justin Hodges 5.Brent Tate 6.Johnathan Thurston 7.Cooper Cronk 8.Matt Scott 9.Cameron Smith (c) 10.Nate Myles 11.Chris McQueen 12.Sam Thaiday 13.Corey Parker 14.Daly Cherry-Evans 15.Matt Gillett 16.Ben Te'o 17.Josh Papalii
I think he should too. I don't see why we should think he will though. I mean unless there's an injury, who do you see Meninga dropping?
It's not someone who really deserves to be dropped but I'd say Papalli, I feel like the only real reason Hannant wasn't chosen was because of the shit Thaiday said.
Mal said Hannant never really even came into consideration for Game II. I actually don't think it had that much to do with injury. I think he's convinced about this mobility strategy. I mean he didn't put Shillo on the bench. He dropped him entirely which sort of suggests he didn't think there was room for a big man on the bench with Papalii playing middle third.
I'd lean towards Hannant because he usually is a gun off the bench, however, he does give away lazy penalties quite regularly.
