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Blayke Brailey Try<\/p>\n
While quick to praise those around him, the local junior said he has looked closely at the best hookers in the sport in a bid to take his game to the next level.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I look at everyone at the top of their game,” Brailey said. “I watch pretty closely to see what they do and try to put it into my game. I always want to evolve and keep taking my game to the next level.<\/p>\n
“Harry is such a threat close to the line and all throughout the field. He’s a great player and hard to slow down but we’ll try our best.”<\/p>\n
Brailey has watched closely as Grant has controlled NRL and Origin games from the base of the ruck with the hooker the master at picking apart opposition defences.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So much of the Storm’s attack runs through Grant, particularly when halfback Jahrome Hughes is off the field.<\/p>\n
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All the angles: THAT Harry Grant match winner!<\/p>\n
The reigning Dally M Medal winner is racing the clock to return from a fractured arm on Friday night and his availability will likely be a game-day decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hughes or no Hughes, Grant is set to play a big role in the preliminary final and Brailey said his side must contain the Melbourne skipper if they are to cause an upset at AAMI Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s going to be tough,” Brailey said. “He’s been the best hooker in the game for a long period and the way he plays is great. He’s their captain too so he’s such a leader for them.<\/p>\n
“He’s going to be tough to slow down in the middle. A lot of teams try to do it but they can’t. He’s a great player so it’s going to be a good match up between the two of us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sharks hooker Blayke Brailey has set his sights on an Australian jumper as he looks to upstage Kangaroos…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-160694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nrl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-national-rugby-league","11":"tag-nationalrugbyleague","12":"tag-nrl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}