Adam Elliott's brief stay in the nation's capital is set to culminate in the lock forward's first-ever finals match, and he isn't ready for it to finish this weekend.
Not a singular game across Elliott's 124 NRL match career has come outside the regular season, a broken duck egg only eclipsed by on-loan winger David Nofoaluma's 180-game streak set to be thrown aside in the same contest.
Elliott's maiden season in the NRL saw Canterbury make the finals in 2016, however, then-coach Des Hasler failed to select the forward for the finals series, leaving the lock with a long six-year wait for another crack at the big stage, something that has stuck with him all these years.