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QUEENSLAND'S team for Wednesday's 100th State of Origin game features four men who have been named among The Courier-Mail's all-time Maroon greats.
Hooker Cameron Smith, halfback Johnathan Thurston, centre Greg Inglis and Billy Slater, named on the wing, earned the honour after more than 5000 readers voted in the couriermail.com.au poll.
With Inglis on one side and Mal Meninga on the other, playmakers Wally Lewis, at five-eighth, Smith and Thurston would have plenty of options if this side could actually run out.
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Our state's Origin devotees mixed a blend of modern champions and past greats.
The big calls included were:
■ ARTHUR Beetson did not make the 17 on the basis of his one game, but The Courier-Mail readers named him as coach.
■ THURSTON won almost three times the votes as Allan Langer for halfback (3604 to 1350).
■ MENINGA, Inglis, Slater and Dale Shearer are the three-quarters. Darren Lockyer was named fullback by 4325 entrants, with Slater attracting 2756 votes.
■ THE four guns from this year's side are joined by Lockyer, Petero Civoniceva and Steve Price, so the teams from 2006 onwards are well represented. Seven players who featured in the 1980s, Queensland's second most productive era in terms of wins, also make the cut.
■ THE 1980s warhorses Greg Dowling and Martin Bella were overlooked as props in favour of starters Shane Webcke and Civoniceva and interchange forward Price.
■ EIGHT of the 17 played at least some of their careers at the Broncos.
Most votes went to Lewis with 5230, proving he remains the King in the fans' eyes 23 years after his farewell from Origin. A total of 4599 voted for Lewis at No.6, with 578 at lock and a surprising 53 on the bench.
Queensland State of Origin team training. Source: News Corp Australia
The second most wanted Maroon was Inglis, with 4522 votes as a centre.
Lockyer was in the 17-man squad with 5078 votes, with Meninga next at 5069. The most popular forward was Tallis, with 4778 despite having played the fewest games, 17, of any of the men chosen in the team. Tallis did not play Origin in any of the three years after his 1994 debut.
Those who voted for Langer might reflect that it is not the first time the Queensland electorate has seemingly got something badly wrong.
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Queensland's greatest ever Origin squad. Source: News Corp Australia
The champion halfback who won Origin man of the match awards 15 years apart, is named on the bench, just as Bob Fulton used to do on Kangaroo tours.
Mark Murray told The Courier-Mail that Langer was his clear choice.
ButMany voters put more value on Thurston's total package of skills, as exhibited in his remarkable streak of 27 Origins games over nine series.
In two different positions and a bench spot, Bob Lindner attracted 2769 votes, with Trevor Gillmeister's total of 3606 comfortably making them starting backrowers alongside Tallis. Bench spots went to Gary Larson (2429) and Paul Vautin (1881). Shearer held the record of 12 Origin tries for many years and was preferred to names such as Kerry Boustead (six games) and Israel Folau (eight).
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On the basis that captain-coaches went out with body shirts and button-up flies, we went away from the idea of Meninga as coach, a role for which we did not call for your votes. But Beetson, the Godfather of Origin, had to be involved somewhere and his win-loss record was better than Wayne Bennett's.
Beetson's 11 wins and five losses came from 1981-84 and 1989-90, taking in five full series.
Bennett teams won 11, lost 10 and drew one.
Unselected players include nine men who played 20 or more games for the Maroons: Bella, Greg Conescu, Gene Miles, Matt Sing, Brent Tate, Darren Smith, Kevin Walters, Sam Thaiday and Nate Myles.
Stars from the 1980s with shorter careers who missed out included Dowling, Boustead and Chris Close, man of the match in the first two Origin games.
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The Mightiest Maroons
1. Darren Lockyer
2. Billy Slater
3. Mal Meninga
4. Greg Inglis
5. Dale Shearer
6. Wally Lewis
7. Johnathan Thurston
8. Shane Webcke
9. Cameron Smith
10. Petero Civoniceva
11. Gorden Tallis
12. Trevor Gillmeister
13. Bob Lindner
Reserves:
14. Allan Langer
15. Gary Larson
16. Paul Vautin
17. Steve Price
Coach: Arthur Beetson.
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