Melbourne Storm has named a 26-player squad for Friday night\u2019s pre-season challenge game against the Canberra Raiders at Seiffert Oval in Queanbeyan.<\/p>\n
Coached by Mark Russell, with Head Coach Craig Bellamy in attendance, Storm\u2019s opening pre-season fixture for 2026 features an exciting mix of emerging talent from the Club\u2019s pathway system alongside a handful of senior players.<\/p>\n
Hugo Peel will get his first opportunity at fullback, with the Victorian lining up alongside wingers Luke Cesari and Siulagi Tuimalatu-Brown. Marion Seve and Moses Leo are named in the centres, while Eli Morris and Jordan Hamlin combine in the halves.<\/p>\n
Storm fans will also get their first look at new signings Davvy Moale and Jack Hetherington, who will join a forward pack that includes Gabriel Satrick, Ativalu Lisati, Cooper Clarke and the experienced Trent Loiero.<\/p>\n
The bench features a promising mix of NSW Cup, development and academy players who have impressed throughout pre-season and earned their chance to pull on the purple jersey.<\/p>\n
Storm\u2019s next pre-season challenge game will be against the Gold Coast Titans on Saturday 21 February at Sunshine Coast Stadium, with a more experienced NRL line-up expected to be named.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne Storm has named a 26-player squad for Friday night\u2019s pre-season challenge game against the Canberra Raiders at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-471055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471055","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=471055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}