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The Rugby League All Stars Match of the National Rugby League is an annual rugby league football match between the specially-formed Indigenous All Stars and an All Stars team, both of whose members are made available for selection public vote. The game has been played since 2010 at a variety of venues across Australia. The player judged man-of-the-match is awarded the Preston Campbell Medal, named after indigenous Gold Coast player, Preston Campbell. Between 20, the Indigenous All Stars opponent was an NRL All Stars team, they were replaced for 2016 by a World All Stars team.

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The first match took place on 13 February 2010 at the Gold Coast's Skilled Park and was won 16-12 by the Indigenous All Stars, and winning half-back Johnathan Thurston was awarded the inaugural Preston Campbell award for best player. Players from both sides were primarily chosen by the public, through a voting scheme through the official NRL website. Coaches from both sides then select the voted players into a make up squad, and players specially selected by the coaches are then included to create the full 20-man positional squad.

Several rule alterations were also made exclusive to the All Stars which trialled such concepts like the "Double Try" and "Power Play" rule. The Preston Campbell Medal is awarded to the man of the match and is exclusively voted by the public. The medal is named after Gold Coast Titans and indigenous star Preston Campbell, who was the first person that ventured the idea of the All Stars match.

Offensive line coach Paul Dunn couldn't figure out what in the world Jordan Mailata was doing by the Gatorade cooler. It was their first day of on-field training at IMG Academy and Dunn had just finished putting the monstrous former rugby leaguer and another international player through a basic agility drill. Normally the exercise would have taken two minutes, but because of the students' lack of football experience, it dragged on for a half-hour under the Florida sun. ' Well, I'll tell you what, they didn't know how to put a helmet on, let alone take a helmet off."That was Jan. Just three and a half months later, on April 28, the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles traded up to select Mailata in the seventh round of the NFL draft to play offensive tackle. When the drill mercifully ended, the players -- dressed in helmets and full pads for the first time -- went to the sideline for what was supposed to be a quick drink break. To bridge the divide, the time in between was dedicated to an intense crash course aimed at getting a 21-year-old who admittedly knew "as little as peanuts" about football NFL-ready in 15 weeks. Instead, they lingered by the hydration station, acting perplexed.' After about a minute of standing there looking at one another, they both tried to drink the Gatorade through their helmet, and literally splashed it all over themselves," Dunn said with a laugh."A coach comes running over and he says, 'Mates! A quick look at Mailata's rugby highlights with the South Sydney Rabbitohs Under-20s is enough to understand why Mailata piqued the NFL's interest. He's lean and powerful and moves with an agility and athleticism rarely seen in men his size.

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The rugby league mortals tasked with cutting down the nimble giant stood no chance, bouncing off his tree-trunk legs before hitting the turf with a splat."That was impressive," said Eagles vice president of player personnel Joe Douglas. "That definitely was an eye-opener, watching the You Tube [videos]."It caught the attention of someone in the NFL's International Player Pathway program as well. Following a workout in Los Angeles, Mailata was picked to train at IMG Academy along with a select group of overseas players with the goal of securing one of the four NFL practice-squad spots designated for international prospects.

The notion of getting drafted seemed to be a pipe dream. But two things were immediately clear upon arrival at the facility in Bradenton, Florida.   The first was that Mailata was a physical freak."Well, let's see, the guy is probably one of the largest human beings I've ever seen in my life," said IMG's strength and conditioning coach, Jay Butler, when asked about his first impression of the Aussie.  

Butler was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers strength coach for two years. He said Bucs players in Mailata's weight range tended to have around 30 percent body fat; Mailata's was around 17 percent by the end of training."In my years of coaching, I probably haven't had anybody who looks like that, top to bottom," he said.

The players were given Beach Cruiser bikes to get from one side of campus to the other. The staff got a kick out of the lighthearted Mailata -- known to break into song or dance at any moment during the course of the grueling days -- toying around on what he made seem like a kid's bike."He just looked kind of silly on this beach bike because he's so massive, riding around like the Wicked Witch of the West in 'The Wizard of Oz,'" Butler joked, "so we'd have fun with him."The second thing that jumped off the page was his lack of football knowledge. According to Dunn, Mailata didn't know a first down from a touchdown when he arrived on campus."I remember the first day Jordan came in and we were doing their intros, and I was like, ‘What's your favorite team? It was literally shocking," said Taryn Morgan, the assistant director of athletic and personal development at IMG.

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"He probably couldn't have even told us a team [in the NFL] at that point, or who his favorite player was. It was so endearing."But there was a lot of work to do. Mailata had to learn a new sport while simultaneously preparing his body for combine-like testing for his upcoming pro day, which then was just over two months away. To meet those rather insane demands, he was immersed in a jam-packed holistic development program that went from sunup to sundown and included movement and strength training, on-field and classroom work, nutrition, mental and vision training, and leadership and media instruction. The Patriots' Nate Ebner has been the most successful athlete to jump from rugby to the NFL, but he's not the only one who tried. Here are a few others and how they fared, according to ESPN Stats & Info: Jarryd Hayne, RB, San Francisco 49ers, 2015 He was signed as an undrafted free agent after playing for the Fijian and Australian national rugby league teams. After rushing for 175 yards on 15 carries in the preseason, he rushed 17 times for 52 yards and caught six passes for 27 yards during the regular season. Mailata shuffled (or cruised) from one station to the next. He also played for Fiji's Sevens rugby team after leaving the NFL. Some other notable rugby players who played in the NFL, but also played college football: David Dixon, OL, Minnesota Vikings, 1994-2004 He played rugby and football at Arizona State and started 134 games for the Vikings, mostly at right guard. Louis Cardinals, 1987 He was offered a football scholarship by Hawaii while playing for an Australian Schoolboys team on a tour. Paul Lasike, FB, Chicago Bears, 2016 He played football and rugby at BYU after growing up in Australia. One minute he'd be working on his 40-time get-off, the next he was in the classroom learning about zone schemes, defensive fronts and trap pulls.

Hayden Smith, TE, New York Jets, 2012 He was signed as an undrafted free agent after playing for the United States national rugby team. He rushed three times for eight yards in 10 games, including three starts for the Bears. Ebner, DB, New England Patriots, 2012-present He was a second-team All-Pro in 2016. He'd go from on-field training -- Mailata practiced with high school seniors at the academy as he learned to function in his new ecosystem -- to the "mind gym," where he'd pop on 3D glasses for some cognitive training to enhance things like reaction time."The last three or four months have not been easy," Mailata said on the night he was drafted, "mentally challenging as well as physically."He quickly began to see results, however. He played rugby and football at Ohio State and was drafted by the Patriots in the sixth round in 2012. Even though strength gain was not a major focus in the lead-up to his pro day, his bench press went from around 16 reps of 225 pounds to 25 reps, according to Butler, while his squat numbers shot up from around 400 pounds to 500 pounds.