New South Wales Origin coach Brad Fittler has spoken on Triple M's Rush Hour with MGย about the players he will be keeping an eye on to contend for the No.6 jersey.
โThe big decision is really going to be the five-eighth at the moment,โ Fittler said.
โLuke Keary is one of the obvious ones, itโll be interesting how Cody(Walker) starts the season and the other one is Mitchell Moses.
โHe was five-eighth when I coached the Lebanon team. He had a pretty good start to the season as well for Parramatta, his last couple of years have been pretty impressive so thatโs going to be the big decision.โ
โBut just on form over the last couple of years Luke Keary has been one of our best players, it would be great to see him in the State of Origin team one day.โ
With State of Origin set to be held after the NRL season, Fittler will have to hope all three will be injury-free.
Kearey in particular has a worrying injury history, including missing six weeks last season with a concussion which caused him to miss the entire origin series.
โPlaying it now in November means theyโre going to have to go through 18 rounds, a semi-final series and a grand final so itโll be interesting what sort of nick everyone is in, dealing with injuries,โ Fittler said.
