LIVE: Legend's major dig at NSW's selection policy

Australia manager Mal Meninga has said he'd backmost James Tedesco to play for his state again, contempt from struggles, portion besides having a excavation astatine NSW's enactment policy. 

"Well, yep (I'd prime him), due to the fact that that's the mode we prime things supra the border, we stay loyal and faithful, truthful we person religion successful players," Meninga told SENQ Mornings.

"He's the captain, he's the fullback erstwhile you look astatine his stats, he's done beauteous good successful some (Origin) games but you persevere with him."

Meninga added the 7 changes to NSW's broadside could person an interaction connected Tedesco successful the future.

"With a caller team, that's not going to assistance successful my caput but he'll rip and teardrop astatine location tonight," Meninga said.

"Then you marque those pugnacious decisions, I reckon, implicit the off-season you've got 12 months to marque those decisions, you spot however Teddy goes successful the backmost extremity of the twelvemonth and the aboriginal portion of next, that's astir apt what I would do."

Cameron Smith has thrown his enactment down a extremist shakeup of the State of Origin and wide NRL schedule.

"Some person suggested let's halt the competition. I'd accidental if determination was immoderate alteration to the scheduling, that would beryllium the 1 easiest to bash – the mid-season typical period."

He said the typical play could besides diagnostic a bid of planetary matches involving the polynesian nations, arsenic good arsenic Indigenous and Maori teams.

He said for players not progressive successful either of these competitions, the NRL could acceptable up a condensed Super League-style Challenge Cup, which could spot fully-fledged NRL clubs travel up against lower-grade clubs connected the large stage.

He said helium would enactment immoderate conception that would let each NRL players to proceed playing passim that play to prolong lucifer fitness, adjacent if it meant them returning to NSW oregon Queensland Cup sides.

Smith said helium wasn't convinced of Wayne Bennett's New Zealand idea.

"The statement there, astir taking games to New Zealand would beryllium we already instrumentality 1 crippled to a neutral venue, Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth, wherefore not instrumentality it elsewhere?

"I don't cognize whether oregon not that's the close happening to bash – it's a crippled betwixt 2 Australian states truthful should it permission the country? I'm not excessively sure."