Forget, if you can, about the No.6s on either side of Easter Monday’s sold-out western Sydney derby.

Even after all the endless column inches, clicks and nightly news bulletins around the multi-million-dollar deals being taken up, or not, by Lachlan Galvin and Dylan Brown.

NSW coach Laurie Daley has a No.6 jersey of his own to fill and exactly one month to do it.

So it’s all eyes on Eels No.7 Mitchell Moses and, until this week, his opposite number Jarome Luai. Who just so happen to be the Blues most recent halves pairing, a pivotal one at that in last year’s come-from-behind series win.

If Nathan Cleary is fit when Daley picks his Origin I squad in four weeks’ time, he is NSW halfback.

Moses returns from a stress reaction in his left foot against the Tigers on Monday and has played just eight games for Parramatta in the past 18 months. The surgery and screw inserted into the same foot sidelined him for two months this time last year.

But such was his kicking........

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