Brett Kimmorley and Trent Barrett will be the third NSW halves combination in the Origin dead-rubber in Brisbane on Wednesday.

Canberra Raiders pivot Campese was shafted after the Blues' 28-18 loss in game one at Melbourne last month.

While both Price and Lyons admitted it wasn't Campese's best performance, they said he should have been given a chance to prove himself in the best-of-three series.

Price, a veteran of 13 NSW caps in the 1970s and '80s, said the team's selection process needed to change, regardless of the result in Brisbane.

''[Campese's] only young, he was good enough to play the first so there was no reason to leave him out he wasn't that bad,'' Price told The Sunday Canberra Times.

''Overhaul the selectors, get rid of them.

''You don't need the selectors, they don't know what they're doing and by making all these changes the players start to lose confidence.

''The coach knows what players he wants and he should be able to pick who he wants for the game style he wants to play.

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