A Knights star is again expected to play a big role off the bench after a miraculous recovery as both Newcastle and Penrith trim their teams 24 hours before kick off.

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SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 27

Penrith Panthers vs Newcastle Knights @ Accor Stadium, 4:05pm AEST

Panthers Team: 1. Dylan Edwards 2. Thomas Jenkins 3. Blaize Talagi 4. Casey McLean 5. Brian To’o 6. Jack Cole 7. Nathan Cleary 8. Moses Leota 9. Mitch Kenny 10. Lindsay Smith 11. Isaiah Papali’i 12. Liam Martin 13. Isaah Yeo 14. Jack Cogger 15. Scott Sorensen 16. Liam Henry 17. Billy Phillips 18. Luke Garner 21. Freddy Lussick 22. Izack Tago

Players Cut: 19. Billy Scott 20. Luron Patea

Late Mail: The Panthers have dropped two from their extended bench, Billy Scott and Luron Patea., 24 hours before kick off.

Knights Team: 1. Kalyn Ponga 2. Dominic Young 3. Dane Gagai 4. Bradman Best 5. Greg Marzhew 6. Fletcher Sharpe 7. Sandon Smith 8. Tyson Frizell 9. Phoenix Crossland 10. Cody Hopwood 11. Jermaine McEwen 12. Francis Manuleleua 13. Mathew Croker 14. Harrison Graham 15. Lachlan Crouch 16. Pasami Saulo 17. Dylan Lucas 18. Fletcher Hunt 19. Thomas Cant 20. Kyle McCarthy

Players Cut: 21. Elijah Leaumoana 22. Toby Winter

Late Mail: Second rower Dylan Lucas is once again expected to play an impact role off the bench after making a successful return from his ankle injury last week. Lucas opened up on his miraculous comeback in an interview with CODE Sports this week, revealing how he was able to return four weeks earlier than expected. Lucas said he spent plenty of time with his foot in an ice bath doing rehab at home while also pestering club medicos for advice. “I was doing rehab at home, just rubbing cream into it, trying to free up that swelling. Trying to massage the joint, get the movement back in it, and pretty much just sitting in the ice machine,” he told Code Sports. “There’s this company called Athlelite, he makes these creams that are supposed to improve healing. I brought some of that into training and they were happy to massage me with that, just buying into things that I was trying to do to get there. They might have thought that it won’t do anything and could be a placebo, but I definitely felt like it was helping me. For them to be able to buy into that stuff and not shut it down definitely helped.” It was around six weeks in that Lucas started to think he was a realistic chance of returning for the finals.

Cleary cleared for prelim | 00:31