Josh Schuster wowed in his NRL return while Tom Trbojevic enjoyed his best performance of the year, as the Sea Eagles beat the Raiders 42-14 to close out Round 12.
On the eve of the New South Wales team being named, Trbojevic, who endured a patchy start to the year littered with injury niggles, stood tall with a hat-trick of tries and 239 running metres.
Two of those four-pointers were assisted by five-eighth Josh Schuster, who after three weeks out injured returned with a bang, finishing the game with three try assists and scoring one of his own.