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Having spent 12 months in the State of Origin wilderness, Valentine Holmes has declared 2017 the year he wants to finally pull on a maroon jumper.Holmes was blacklisted by Queensland management for the 2016 series after breaking curfew during an emerging squad training camp in Brisbane in February.Holmes was one of eight players who werent considered with the incident knocking him down the pecking order after Dane Gagai and Corey Oates established themselves on the wings in the Maroons 2-1 series triumph.However after starring in Cronullas premiership campaign - where he scored 19 tries to equal David Peacheys club record - hes set his sights on playing on rugby leagues biggest stage next year during the Maroons title defence.Everyone wants to play for their state and country so its definitely a goal of mine, Holmes said.The 21-year-old Sharks star insists he didnt dwell on his Queensland selection ban during the year, arguing he was no certainty to be picked in just his third year of first grade.Now with a finals series and grand final victory under his belt, he said he felt like the time was right for him to play representative footy.Theres unbelievable wingers, fullbacks and centres in the game right now., Holmes said.Dane Gagai scored three tries (in game two), Corey Oates is killing it and he played in a grand final last year so you cant go past him.If that didnt happen at the start of the year, I dont know if I would have got picked so I didnt dwell on it too much.Im still young and I dont know if I would have been ready. 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And I tell fans: Like them, Im disappointed, Murphy said. Certainly, the season hasnt gone the way we had all hoped, but theres a lot of football left to be played. And the other thing I tell people is, youve got to look at Ted Thompson and Mike McCarthys track record.Thompson has been the Packers general manager since 2005, and he hired McCarthy as coach in 2006. Theyre on a run of seven straight playoff appearances, tying the New England Patriots for the longest active streak in the NFL. But with six games remaining, the Packers are two games out of first place in the NFC North.Last week, a team spokesman told ESPN.com that Murphy would not comment on this years team, because he defers football matters to Ted and Mike during the season. Thompson has not spoken to reporters since Aug. 30 and also was not made available after an interview request earlier this month.Weve been through difficult stretches before, Murphy said..ddddddddddddWeve had consistent success, and its hard to achieve that in the NFL, but I do sympathize with our fans. They want us to win, they want us to play better, and weve just got to work through a difficult patch. Im optimistic and Im hopeful. Weve done it in the past and, hopefully, we can do it again.Both Thompson and McCarthy have contracts that run through the 2018 season.Thompson oversees the football operation and reports to Murphy, who acts on behalf of the teams seven-member executive committee. Murphy said the teams public-ownership structure, which includes more than 5 million shares of stock held by more than 360,000 shareholders, does not impact the way football decisions are made.The [public perception] of that is, the Packers are really harmed because they dont have an individual owner who can go in and fire somebody, Murphy said. Well, if you look across the league, when those individual owners do things like that, it usually doesnt turn out very well. The answer isnt just to fire people midseason, especially, [given that] weve had a run of success.Our coaches and personnel people and Ted and Mike have shown in the past they can turn things around. I think that taking that approach certainly makes more sense than just firing people to fire people. ' ' '