Canberra Raiders fullback Xavier Savage returns to where his NRL career didn't begin

Canberra Raiders fullback Xavier Savage returns to where his NRL career didn't begin

The Canberra Times

It's where Xavier Savage's NRL journey began. Well, kind of. More than a year later the Canberra Raiders fullback will finally play his first NRL game at Wollongong.

He returns to the scene of his "not debut" for the first time with the Raiders taking on the St George Illawarra Dragons at a wet and windy Wollongong on Sunday.

Savage was famously brought on at half-time as an 18th man, concussion substitute for Sebastian Kris only for officials to realise he shouldn't have been allowed on 11...

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