The biggest issue facing us in this game is the impact that will be had on players backing up either from the test or the joke of a game that is City / Country. Year after year we have guys run around in City / Country even though they are no hope fo getting selected for the big dance.
eg Mini, Presto (who missed a month off the back of one of these games), Delaney (how bad must NSW have been that year ).

Minichello and Bird will both be picked for city. Outside of them I suppose the only other real headache we have is Ryan James. He was excellent last night and the last thing we need with Friend out this week is for him to go and play in a rep game with only about 10 first grade games under his belt.

So we have Mini, Bird and possibly James backing up and Friend out. We need a whole host of them selected or we are in big trouble!!