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CLUB captains - with the strongest voices from SA pair Matthew Pavlich and Ryan Griffen - are reinforcing their campaign to restore representative football on the AFL calendar.
They are preferring a return to Origin football rather than endorsing the new option from the player's union - a City v Country clash every two years.
Fremantle captain Pavlich and new Western Bulldogs skipper Griffen on Wednesday kept the Origin debate alive by pushing their agenda in Adelaide at the captains' annual meeting with the AFL Commission.
But Pavlich, who has not played an Origin game, concedes finding the right format and timing for representative football is the biggest challenge in breaking the block from club leaders. And the commercial viability of an Origin championship running across three or four years is the major question to answer to the AFL.
"Everyone among the players, the public and AFL would love it to go ahead," said Pavlich, a member of SA's last Origin training squad in 1999.
"But the major stumbling block most people see is the timing - and the format. So they are pretty big stumbling blocks, unfortunately, and we are going to have to resolve them at some point.
"Everyone recognises it would be a great part of our game. It is just a matter of working through the details."
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Griffen said he would "love'' to represent South Australia in State-of-Origin.
"It would mean a fair bit to me,'' the former South Adelaide star said.
"To be able to represent your State would be amazing and to play with champions of the game like Pav would be exciting.
"I'm not sure just how it would work and where it would fit into the footy calendar but I'm sure we would be able to find a way.
"While I can't speak for every player I'm sure most would be behind the concept. If I was called up to play for my State I would be honoured.''
The AFL Players' Association last month circulated a discussion paper among the league's 700 players asking for a vote on the traditional Origin concept or a new theme with the City-Country clash that is easier to place in the AFL calendar.
But the spirit for representing a state rather than a zone holds strongest.
"I'm happy to explore City v Country a little further, but for me State-of-Origin has my vote," Pavlich said.
"I'm holding out hope that I'll get that red South Australian jumper, but I think I probably won't ever wear it."
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