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Match day guide and preview for the 2022 NRL Elimination Final between the Melbourne Storm and Canberra Raiders.
Jack Wighton and Elliott Whitehead return for the Raiders after the being rested, with Corey Harawira-Naera shifting to the bench and Matt Frawley to the reserves.
Melbourne have named star halfback Jahrome Hughes to return after he was a late out against the Eels with calf tightness.
Lex Boyd could tell something was wrong when answers were replaced with grunts. Rather than doing nothing, he decided to offer help, which is exactly what Canberra Raiders centre Sebastian Kris needed.
Boyd, an Australia Post contractor, filled up a van with 200 parcels and sent Kris to the steepest streets in Canberra's south. "That'll do him for the day," Boyd would chuckle to himself.
Then Boyd saw the glint return to Kris' eyes. The same silent determination that has convinced him Kris...
Jamal Fogarty is the unlikely champion of the Raiders' rise into the top-eight and a telling piece of feedback from coach Ricky Stuart indicates the best is yet to come from the 28-year-old Queenslander.
While Fogarty was a welcome addition to provide a more stable rudder for the Raiders upon George Williams' sour exit, he is not a Cleary, Moses, Hunt, Cherry-Evans or Reynolds-type No.7 that a team is built around.
It was just a few years ago that Fogarty was playing for Burleigh Bears in the...