THE Melbourne Storm has become the first club in the history of the state-of-origin series to dominate the make-up of both combatants for a single game after winger Steve Turner's place in the NSW team was confirmed for Wednesday's clash against Queensland.

The Storm now has more players than any other National Rugby League team in both origin sides, with six preparing to play for the Maroons (Cameron Smith, Billy Slater, Michael Crocker, Greg Inglis, Israel Folau and Dallas Johnson) and four for the Blues (Brett White, Anthony Quinn, Ryan Hoffman and Turner), plus coach Craig Bellamy.

Brisbane has the next best representation for Queensland with five — although skipper Darren Lockyer is in doubt because of his knee injury — and for NSW, the next best contributors are Newcastle and Sydney Roosters with three.

While Brisbane holds the record for the most players in a single game, with 11 representatives (six times), no club has provided the bulk of both teams at the same time until now, although Manly (1982 and 1987) and Canberra (1990) came close.

Storm chief executive Brian Waldron said the selections were a success story for the premier in the Australian football heartland of Melbourne.

"I think the most impressive thing from our point of view is that probably with the exception of Michael Crocker, all the other players have come through our development program …" Waldron said.

"It shows you that we know how to identify the talent and how to nurture it.

"It's probably also a message for the industry that you don't necessarily need a fertile home environment to produce good talent if your identification's right."

Turner's call-up into the Blues side will force a reshuffle of an already depleted team that will play the Gold Coast on Monday night, with veteran utility Matt Geyer likely to be moved from hooker to full-back, with Liam Foran possibly coming off the bench to play hooker.

Lucas Miller, Clifford Manua or Sinbad Kali will come into the team.

But the Storm's task could be marginally less daunting with Titans skipper Scott Prince rushed into the Queensland squad as a standby player.

It was originally suggested he was covering for half-back Johnathan Thurston, but it has emerged that Darren Lockyer is the greater concern, with the star five-eighth in huge doubt with his troublesome knee..

■A plea from England-bound Australian duo Michael Crocker and Danny Buderus to play in the World Cup looks to have fallen on deaf ears, with Australian Rugby League chief executive Geoff Carr yesterday rejecting claims from the in-form pair that they "had a right" to play in the tournament.

Test coach Ricky Stuart last week called for players who committed to English clubs to be snubbed for the World Cup and Carr said yesterday that selectors were only interested in players involved in Australia's long-term plans.

With GREG PRICHARD and AAP