He played State of Origin from 1991 to 1997 , playing in 10 games . Although not selected for Origin in 1994 , Fairleigh won the Rothman 's Medal in 1994 for the best and fairest player in the NRL with a record tally of 33 votes . Fairleigh made his Test début for Australian in a one-off test against France when Bradley Clyde withdrew . At the end of the 1994 NSWRL season , he was one of the first forwards selected for the 1994 Kangaroo Tour . He appeared in twelve minor tour matches and two Tests , scoring five tries on tour . He had been selected as a reserve for the second Test but withdrew on the morning of the match with a virus . He played in the third Test against Great Britain and in the sole test against France , scoring a try in the 74-0 drubbing . His Origin ( and national ) representative careers benefitted from the fracas of the Super League war and he appeared in all three games of the 1995 and 1997 series for a career total of ten appearances for the Blues . He was also selected in the Australian team to play against Fiji and Papua New Guinea in 1996 . In 1996 he was named in the World Team and was named Dally M Second Row of the Year . He was second in the Rothmans Medal in 1996 behind teammate Jason Taylor
Rothman 's Medal
Dally M Medal
David Fairleigh