NSW great Paul Gallen says if the Blues State of Origin team for game one was being picked now, then Nicho Hynes should be selected at five-eighth, at the expense of Jarome Luai.

Hynes who was last year’s Dally M Medal winner has made a strong start to 2023 and earlier on Saturday told The Continuous Call Team it’s always been a dream of his to play for NSW.

While Gallen admits a lot can happen between now and game one on May 31 in Adelaide, he believes it’s time for a switch in the halves based on current form.

“If we were picking the team today, I would pick Nicho Hynes,” Gallen said

“In my opinion, he’s done enough to deserve to get picked.

“I look at last year’s series, we had a lot of Penrith players, a lot of Penrith flavour and every single one of them deserved to be picked, but I felt like we tried to play a little bit like Penrith.”

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