If young gun Will Pryce earns an NRL debut with an opportunity to terrorise his Canberra opponents on Thursday night, perhaps he'll just be returning the favour to a familiar face.
Raiders captain and fellow Englishman Elliott Whitehead lived with the Newcastle talent's family in the south of France as he plied his trade for the Catalans Dragons in the early 2010s.
Whitehead joked that a pre-teen Pryce provided the perfect path through language barriers.
"I used to force him to shop with me when I wanted something because...