Round 6
Canberra Raiders 42 d. Melbourne Storm 10

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Learoyd-Lahrs returns for Raiders
Tue April 15, 2008
Source: www.raiders.com.au

Raider's enforcer Tom Learoyd-Lahrs will make his first appearance for the Green Machine in 2008 on Monday night, after he was named on the bench for the Raiders big heritage round clash against the Melbourne Storm at Canberra Stadium.

Learoyd-Lahrs has spent the past three weeks playing for the Souths Logan Magpies in the Queensland Cup, and has been playing some consistent football and getting valuable on field minutes.

Raiders forward Trevor Thurling will face the NRL judiciary on Wednesday night and will plead not guilty on his grade one dangerous throw charge, while Ben Jones will escape suspension after taking the early guilty plea on his grade one dangerous throw charge.

If Thurling is suspended later this week the door will open for either David Milne to come into the 17, or it could see Joel Thompson make his NRL debut.

Thompson has been in solid form for the Raiders Toyota Cup side over the past few weeks, and trialled with the NRL side in their three trial matches at the start of the season.

Raiders forward Josh Miller was today ruled out for 4-6 weeks, after he sustained an ankle injury in the sides 30-24 win over the Wests Tigers on Sunday.

Raiders Coach Neil Henry said the club would plead not guilty to Thurling's charge, and mentioned Miller's injury as a key loss for the Green Machine.

Henry said, ""We're going to contest the charge and I think we have a good case there with Trevor, we've named him in the side so hopefully he gets off with that. Josh will be out for four to six weeks with his ankle injury, normally he recovers quite well and he assures me he'll be right in three weeks."

Henry said the return of Tom Learoyd-Lahrs was a bonus for the team, and the Raiders would use the big forward closer to the action than in the past.

"He's into the frame for a game and we'll have to see how he trains in the week after a few weeks in Queensland playing for Logan and hopefully we'll throw him in the front row this weekend," he said. "I think playing in the middle he prefers that rather than playing out on the edge, so that's his future I think."

Facing an inform Melbourne will test the Raiders on Monday night, and Henry said the team would need to improve, and keep up the effort of some recent performances against the Victorian based team.

Henry said: "We're going to need to lift again this week against Melbourne, Billy Slater at the back has been sensational. Both games were tough last year against them and very physical and there wasn't much in it at halftime in both games and they got us at the back end of the second half.

"Our ball control has been pretty good and it will need to be again on Monday night."

TELSTRA PREMIERSHIP
Canberra Raiders v Melbourne Storm
Canberra Stadium
Monday 21st April 2008
7.00pm

Raiders (NRL):
1. Bronx Goodwin
2. Colin Best
3. Marshall Chalk
4. Joel Monaghan
5. Adrian Purtell
6. Terry Campese
7. Todd Carney
8. Scott Logan
9. Lincoln Withers
10. Dane Tilse
11. Joe Picker
12. Nigel Plum
13. Alan Tongue (c)

Subs:
14. Trevor Thurling
15. Tom Learoyd-Lahrs
16. Ben Jones
17. Troy Thompson
18. David Milne
19. Joel Thompson
(two to be omitted)

Coach: Neil Henry

Injuries/Suspension
Josh Miller - Ankle - Round 10-12
Michael Weyman - Suspended - Round 13
Ryan Hinchcliffe - Thumb - Round 11
Glen Turner - Ankle - Round 7
Neville Costigan - Quad - Round 7-9
William Zillman - Knee - Season
Phil Graham - Knee - Season

TOYOTA CUP
Canberra Raiders v Melbourne Storm
Canberra Stadium
Monday 21st April 2008
4.45pm

Raiders (NYC):
1. Josh Dugan
2. Michael Brophy
3. Jarrod Croker
4. Justin Carney
5. Steve Naughton
6. Michael Picker
7. Matt Smith
8. Todd Grace
9. Brock Dunn
10. Todd Rheinberger
11. Shaun Fensom (c)
12. Jarrad Kennedy
13. Zac Merritt

Subs:
14. Travis Waddell
15. Matt Britt
16. Andrew Edwards
17. Brendon Wheatley
18. Levi Freeman
(one to be omitted)

Coach: Tony Adam

News sent by: www.raiders.com.au


Storm unchanged for Raiders clash - includes NYC squad
Tue April 15, 2008
Source: www.melbournestorm.com.au

Melbourne Storm coach Craig Bellamy has named an unchanged 18-man squad for this Monday night's Round 6 clash against the Canberra Raiders. The game will be played at Canberra Stadium from 7:00pm.

While Sika Manu came into the starting-17 in last week's game against the Sea Eagles, Clifford Manua has been brought back into the starting team for the game against the Raiders.

NRL squad for Monday's game:

Starting team:
1. Billy Slater
2. Steve Turner
3. Will Chambers
4. Israel Folau
5. Anthony Quinn
6. Greg Inglis
7. Cooper Cronk
8. Jeff Lima
9. Cam Smith (c)
10. Adam Blair
11. Jeremy Smith
12. Ryan Hoffman
13. Dallas Johnson

Interchange:
14. Matt Geyer, 15. Antonio Kaufusi, 16. Michael Crocker, 17. Clifford Manua, 18. Sika Manu (one to be omitted)

Coach: Craig Bellamy

TOYOTA CUP
Canberra Raiders v Melbourne Storm
Canberra Stadium
Monday 21st April 2008
5:00pm

Storm (NYC):
1. Michael Faamausili
2. Malo Feterika
3. Sam Joe
4. Russ Webber
5. Mack Fawcett
6. Joseph Tomane
7. Luke Kelly
8. Vili Faingaa
9. Jay Aston
10. Louis Fanene
11. Kevin Proctor
12. Lucas Miller (c)
13. Will Naitoro

Interchange:
14. Zeb Tawha, 15. Pulou Vaituutuu, 16. Ryan Hansen, 17. Matt Croker, 18. James Woolford (one to be omitted).

Coach: Brad Arthur

News sent by: www.melbournestorm.com.au

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