The visitors from across the Tasman have left their first-graders at home for their visit to Hamilton.

Take the team that made it to the grand final in 2024, throw in one of the NRL's most promising front-rowers, and you have a genuine premiership threat on your hands in Melbourne.

Melbourne fell just short of knocking ... the squad set to take another stab at the title. The Storm will essentially field the same team which eased to first place on the ladder before losing ...

The Panthers have lost Jarome Luai and James Fisher-Harris, but somehow keep overcoming the loss of a couple of senior ...

While Hughes is a New Zealand league Test player, Papenhuyzen said he was surprised ... contract extension in December that ...

Kasiano, a former Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldog and Melbourne Storm prop, is a New Zealand ... but we couldn’t knock back the opportunity to have a player like him in our line-up.” ...