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Country Origin Team
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Association	Country Rugby League
Head coach	Laurie Daley
Captain	Andrew Ryan
Uniform
Most recent series Country 40 - 18 City
Biggest win
Biggest defeat

The Country Origin Team is a representative rugby league team consisting of players formerly of the New South Wales Country Rugby League competition, one of two federations in the state of New South Wales. City annually play in the City vs Country Origin competition against the representative team of New South Wales' other federation, New South Wales Rugby League (known as "City").

[edit] 2009 Squad

Country lost to City 18-40 on 8 May 2009.

City Origin	Position	Country Origin
Wade McKinnon	Fullback	Luke Patten
Jarryd Hayne	Winger	James McManus
Michael Jennings	Centre	Beau Scott1
Ben Pomeroy4	Centre	Jamie Lyon
David Williams	Winger	Joel Monaghan
John Sutton	Five-Eighth	Terry Campese
Peter Wallace	Half-Back	Jarrod Mullen
Keith Galloway	Prop	Josh Perry
Robbie Farah (c)	Hooker	Michael Ennis
Luke Stuart	Prop	Michael Weyman
Trent Waterhouse	Second Row	Andrew Ryan (c)
Mark Minichiello	Second row	Ben Creagh
Luke O'Donnell	Lock	Alan Tongue
Craig Wing	Interchange	Justin Poore
Shane Shackleton	Interchange	Anthony Tupou
Mark O'Meley5	Interchange	Brett White2
Ryan Hoffman	Interchange	Jamie Soward3
John Cartwright	Coach	Laurie Daley

¹ - Matt Cooper was originally selected but withdrew due to injury (replaced by Beau Scott).
² - Steve Simpson was originally selected but withdrew due to injury (replaced by Brett White) .
³ - Ben Hornby was originally selected but withdrew due to injury (replaced by Jamie Soward).
⁴ - Chris Lawrence was originally selected but withdrew due to injury (replaced by Ben Pomeroy).
⁵ - Adam Cuthbertson was originally selected but withdrew due to injury (replaced by Mark O'Meley).

[edit] External links

• Country Origin Official site.
• City vs Country History

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