Remove rugby league and cricket from the equation and those state-based sporting rivalries which once sustained us rarely receive oxygen these days.
Fan dedication is much more often aligned to their chosen club, or, at a pinch, their nation in a world littered with international competition.
Despite the fading fervour we feel for interstate antagonism, however, it may well prove the promotional lightning rod for this year’s Inter Dominion.
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