LIVE: Origin star set to make NSW Blues history

Fronting the media ahead of the Blues' captain's tally connected Wednesday, NSW Sky Blues manager Kylie Hilder was thrilled with the team's preparations successful camp.

"We've looked astatine what we request to hole from crippled 1 and we've got a fewer changes successful there, but the girls are successful a truly bully headspace and I'm looking guardant to it," she said.

The Blues' broadside has undergone a shake-up from crippled 1 with veterans Simaima Taufa and Tiana Penitani to instrumentality astatine fastener and connected the helping respectively, aft missing the bid opener with injury.

Penitani's inclusion besides allows Taliah Fuimaono to spell backmost to the halves with Jesse Southwell moved to halfback.

"Having the likes of Simaima consecutive backmost successful - she adds truthful overmuch to our team," Hilder said.

"Jesse shifting to the halfback spot has fixed the issues we had there, with Tiana backmost connected the wing.

"So, we've got immoderate experienced players back, and everyone has gelled unneurotic and everyone knows their occupation and the relation they request to play."

Isabelle Kelly volition besides instrumentality to the fold aft being cleared of a fractured larynx and immoderate superior pharynx harm pursuing a precocious elbow successful crippled 1 that near the Origin prima coughing up blood.

"She adds truthful overmuch to our team, not lone arsenic a co-captain but what she does for america [on the field]," Hilder said.

"She was a large nonaccomplishment for america successful the 2nd fractional [of crippled one]. It's truly breathtaking to person her backmost arsenic well, she brings a batch of assurance to the girls astir her and wrong the squad arsenic well.

Asked if Blues were focusing connected the 9 aggregate points needed to bargain the shield retired from nether the Maroons, Hilder claimed determination had been nary speech of the points system.

"Not erstwhile person we discussed the points and what we request to triumph by. We cognize we request to travel present and we request to triumph and that's the mindset that we've got," she said.

"The remainder volition instrumentality attraction of itself. We've conscionable got to get retired there, bash the small things right, instrumentality to our crippled program - play the mode I cognize that we tin play - and we volition hold for the results to come."