Source :- PERTH NOW NEWS
Discipline Chris Scott of Victoria hopes that the reincarnation of State of Origin on Saturday nights will leave a lasting reputation, and he has promised to put on a present.
Northern Australia and Victoria will face off in their first AFL State of Origin game since 1999 at Optus Stadium, where 60, 000 fans will be able to watch from.
The biggest AFL players have a lot of support for the idea, with Victoria and WA both having talented young people with stacked factors.
Given the risk of injury and the fact that the time has yet to begin, some critics have questioned how painful players will work.
Contrary to some of the other exhibition matches the AFL have staged over the past 20 years, Scott has no doubt that WA and Victoria players will be fighting it out for success.
” I know there have been a few games over the past ten or so that I believe we would characterize as a little more Mickey Keyboard,” Scott said.
” I believe this activity has been very significant for about 25 years,” I believe.
And I guess that’s the responsibility to really create something bigger along with the honor that we all feel when we are asked to symbolize our state.
We’re not making any guarantees about what this may turn out to be in the prospect, but we surely don’t want to endanger it and make the people who might be questioning it experience justified.
We’re very comfortable in our ability to put on a great show.
WA will be led by Carlton star Patrick Cripps, while Victoria’s European Bulldogs equivalent Marcus Bontempelli will take the place of.
Scott has been pleased with the way both parties have embraced it since the notion was approved last month.
Both camps have said that we feel a responsibility to do this correctly, according to Scott.
Bont and I had a talk about that when we were first approached, and that was the first item that we discussed.
” We had no interest in doing it if it wasn’t taken seriously. So we now feel obliged to follow through on that.
It’s still unclear how a team would respond if one of its players received a severe injury.
However, according to Scott, players could as well injure themselves in a training fit as well as have the unfortunate experience of injuring something while training.
Star GWS playmaker Tom Green suffered a suspected ACL tear on Friday during an intra-club game.
In response to Green’s damage, Scott said,” It’s a sad thing.
Nobody expresses any feelings for GWS, or Tom in particular, other than love.
It just does show that these things take place at this time of year, whether it is during an Optus State of Origin or during an superfluous training session.
” These threats are real risks, but it seems like everyone involved in the game and the coaching staff have been more than willing to take them.”
The fit will feature the likes of pilot Marcus Bontempelli, Bailey Smith, Caleb Serong, Matt Rowell, Nick Daicos, Zach Merrett, Zak Butters, and Noah Anderson in a magnificent center.
Although WA coach Dean Cox acknowledged that his team was the losers, he is convinced that they have the right balance to entice an uproar.
Cox praised the excellence of the Victorian group and what they have accomplished as individuals through their own venues.
” Despite that, ( our players ) complement one another and, in their own right, have had incredible football careers as well.”
