Blues coach Brad Fittler will look to a front-row partnership forged in Queensland to lay the platform in Wednesday night's Origin series opener, but he wants Tevita Pangai Junior to stay disciplined.
Pangai played alongside Payne Haas for four seasons at the Broncos and the pair have been reunited after the shock selection of the Bulldogs enforcer for his Origin debut in a new look NSW forward pack for the Adelaide Oval clash.
Along with Raiders second-rower Hudson Young, Pangai is expected to bring added aggression to a Blues side that NSW insiders feel was bullied by Queensland in last year's series decider at Suncorp Stadium.