LIVE: Two stars to be brutally axed from Blues side

North Queensland Cowboys hooker Reece Robson has arrived successful Coogee to articulation the NSW Blues campy up of his Origin debut. 

"I'm beauteous excited, truthful looking guardant to getting into campy and getting into it," Robson told media.

"Obviously, it's a large honour to play for your authorities and among the boys that I'm playing alongside, truthful I can't hold and truly privation to rip in."

The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting Nicho Hynes and Tevita Pangai Junior person been dropped from the NSW Blues broadside arsenic Mitchell Moses wins the contention to beryllium halfback.

Tigers youngster Stefano Utoikamanu is expected to marque his debut alongside Reece Robson from the bench.

Queensland Maroons manager Billy Slater sprung a enactment astonishment erstwhile helium selected Titans prop Mo Fotuaika implicit Raiders weapon Corey Horsburgh aft Jai Arrow's wounded near a spread successful the side.

Speaking connected Nine's 100% Footy, Slater explained wherefore helium went with the 23-year-old. 

"I deliberation Mo's been truly accordant this year, he's got State of Origin acquisition and he's a subordinate who's been playing to the modular of Queensland Origin for a portion now," helium said.

"It was a pugnacious determination but some those guys are precise susceptible of playing for Queensland, we conscionable thought Mo was champion suited for our squad close now."

Phil Gould believes the Queensland Maroons already person the precocious manus connected NSW successful Origin II arsenic the second prepares to sanction its broadside connected Tuesday.

"I'm acrophobic from the get spell that Queensland are successful campy contiguous and we're not announcing our squad until tomorrow," helium said connected Nine's 100% Footy.

"It's a immense advantage, the archetypal 24 hours is crucial, they've been sitting determination reviewing and previewing and we're inactive twiddling our thumbs and haven't got a squad yet.

"We won't beryllium getting unneurotic until astir apt Wednesday truthful you're already giving distant 2 days, it's truly important."

The NSW squad doc has cleared the injured trio of Cameron Murray, Latrell Mitchell and Cody Walker to beryllium picked by the Blues aft monitoring a fittingness trial connected Monday.

Blues doc Nathan Gibbs and physio Dan Lawson attended the fittingness trial held astatine Heffron Park, with the 3 stars each considered to beryllium connected way to instrumentality their spot successful the NSW broadside for Origin II if selected.

"They're each connected way to play successful 10 days' time, if picked, but the contented volition beryllium they volition person constricted grooming starring up to the game," Gibbs told The Sydney Morning Herald. "It volition beryllium up to the manager if helium takes them connected with that proviso.

"Cam was capable to bash straight-line running, immoderate broadside to broadside running, conscionable immoderate casual agility drills. Cody did straight-line drills, portion Latrell did immoderate indoor work, loading up the calf and getting immoderate spot into it successful mentation of moving extracurricular connected Wednesday.

"The 3 of them would implicit rehab moving connected Wednesday, modified squad integration Friday, past afloat velocity Sunday."

Billy Slater's property league is finished.

The Maroons present hunker down successful campy up of adjacent week's crippled astatine Suncorp Stadium, wherever they tin triumph the series.

Dane Gagai is different Origin seasoned who hasn't been with the Maroons this year.

He's available, but is being overlooked for the younger Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow.

"Gags is ever successful the conversation, he's a large footballer," Slater says.

"Right present we're assured successful the players that are successful this gathering present down us. They are each acceptable to go."

Billy Slater says Corey Horsburgh is precise adjacent to making his Origin debut, though volition request an wounded successful campy to bash truthful adjacent week.

He and AJ Brimson are successful the extended squad.

"We don't conscionable enactment radical successful those positions for the involvement of it, they person to gain it, and Corey has done that," Slater says.

"They are not conscionable present to marque up the numbers. If needed we person assurance to spot them tally retired successful a Maroons jersey."