Sutton, Stuart, Wing City Origin Selections
3rd May 2009
Three Rabbitohs players have been selected for City Origin to take on Country Origin at Wade Park in Orange this Friday night. Five-eighth John Sutton will go to head-to-head with Country’s Terry Campese for a NSW Blues jersey, with Luke Stuart earning a front-row position and Craig Wing an interchange spot. Rabbitohs stalwart Luke Stuart pulled on his first representative jersey today when he entered the City Origin camp in the lead up to Friday night’s clash with Country Origin at Wade Park in Orange. Stuart looked the goods in the yellow jersey with the blue V’s at today’s media session, saying he thought representative football was beyond his reach. "A rep jersey is probably something I never thought I'd achieve and I never really knew if I was good enough," Stuart said at the City media session today. "So on Friday night, I guess I'll find out.” Stuart’s had his phone turned off and was cooking dinner for his young family when an unsuspecting call came to his house phone. "It was a big surprise to get the phone call from my mum,” Stuart explained. "I was cooking a barbecue, getting the dinner ready for the kids and I had my phone off. "Being a Sunday night, it was pretty quiet, I was just looking forward to watching television and she called ... it was a pretty nice way to find out." Stuart, who won last year’s George Piggins Medal at the Rabbitohs and is in his eighth season with the foundation club, says he does not crave publicity and the attention it brings. "The way I play, it's a pretty simple game, so it doesn't attract a real lot of attention," he said. "That sort of suits the person I am. "I've been happy to play my football and sort of walk away and leave the game on the weekends and live my life because I've got a young family now." Stuart is the oldest player to be making his representative debut, aged at 32 years of age.