Firstly, Kimmorleys kicking game in the first origin match was horrendous. Bad placement, kicks going dead, no pressure on the recievers…. He couldn’t do a single thing right, he even missed a conversion attempt. Obviously this wasn’t all his fault, but his style which requires the forwards giving him lots of room to play was quite different to the small, agile pack that Ricky Stuart had picked. BK needs big beefy forwards, and he didn’t have them.

So who else could we pick? Obviously it’ll go to Joey Johns because selectors don’t go on current form, but on some kinda weird system that involves how good you’re rated to be by the supposed experts (that is how so many Dragons got a spot despite playing only a handful of club matches between them in the past few years). I’d say go with Tim Smith from parramatta (nrl.com doesn’t have who he played juniors for, but the amount of kiwis playing for qld makes it seem that anyone can play). From what I’ve seen he’s the best halfback around this year, and if he’s backed up well by the experience of Trent Barrett I think the youth factor would be diminished.

But really anyone would be better than BK with the current strategy.