Over the past week, the Zero Hanger office caught State of Origin fever as we got excited about the possibility of the old format coming back in the future.

With the last State of Origin match being played in 1999, Australian football fans have had to go without the competition for the past 18 years, so we thought we'd bring it back in our own little way.

We've selected squads for Vic Metro, Vic Country, South Australia and Western Australia, with a view of the mini-tournament being held at the end of the year.

So here are all four squads in full, and our predictions as to how the competition would pan out.

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Who would win?

On first look, both Victorian sides seem to be much stronger than SA and WA, although Western Australia certainly have the key position players that could win them a game.

If each side played each other once in a round robin tournament, the game between Metro and Country would likely decide the champions in our eyes.

Despite having some quality players, South Australia would struggle against the might of the other sides, and could even fail to win a game.

WA has the ability to beat the Country side should everyone play to their strengths, but we feel they could be too inconsistent, meaning both Victorian outfits would get the points against them.

So that leaves Vic Metro and Vic Country, as the two best sides in the tournament.

Country's midfielders of Dyson Heppell, Gary Ablett, Scott Pendlebury, Patrick Dangerfield and Joel Selwood may be the best engine room ever assembled, but there's just too much talent in that Metro side to be beaten.

Winners: Vic Metro 

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