{"id":827646,"date":"2026-07-27T20:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/827646\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T20:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:35:15","slug":"predicting-the-south-australian-state-of-origin-team-for-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/827646\/","title":{"rendered":"Predicting the South Australian State of Origin Team for 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL<\/a> announcing the upcoming Western Australia versus South Australia State of Origin game set for next year, I decided to take a look at what the SA team could look like when it graces the field for the first time since 1999.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohanger.com\/afl-state-of-origin-match-ups-location-confirmed-180379\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SA will travel to Optus Stadium to take on WA in 2027, before hosting Victoria in 2028<\/a>. The third year (2029) will cycle back to the start of the new series, with WA hosting Victoria in Perth.<\/p>\n<p>Players are assigned their state of eligibility based on the location of the junior club from which a given player was drafted.<\/p>\n<p>This side was selected not just on skill, but on fit, role and team balance.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                                    \t                &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; In the wake of the AFL announcing the upcoming Western Australia versus South Australia State of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-827646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}