Origin sides get together a.few days before SoO1.

There is more chance of me gelling my hair than the team gelling and I have been bald for years.

I hate the 'time to gel' excuse but I do believe that if we had been able to consistently put out a similar team we would be in a completely different position right now. It seems impossible to get all our players playing well at the same time, each game we only seem to have 3 or 4 players playing well and these players change week in week out.

AS per quote about SOO teams, how do International Teams do it ?? It's just an excuse for poor technique / coaching / players

If the best of the best can do it then the test team in the competition should have no problem!