Rugby league’s blue-ribbon event is back, promising, as always, to dominate the sporting hearts and minds of rugby league followers the world over. State of Origin returns to its rightful place in the middle of the NRL season after last year’s coronavirus-delayed series took place in November.
NSW will be desperate to atone for last year’s shock series loss to Queensland’s “worst ever” side. Stacked with talent, the Blues enter the series as firm favourites. But as we all learned yet again in 2020, favouritism matters little in Origin.
Sitting on the eastern coast of Australia are the states of Queensland and New South Wales.