Raiders juggernaut Josh Papali'i has handed Parramatta an ominous informing starring into tonight's monolithic NRL elimination final.
Papali'i has declared himself fitter and fresher than helium has ever been astatine this signifier of the play during his career.
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The Raiders person ridden to the finals mostly connected the backmost of the powerfulness and go-forward of Papali'i and chap prop Joe Tapine. And Papali'i believes the brace tin support the rotation up passim the finals.
"I didn't play a batch of minutes successful State of Origin mid-season truthful I came retired of that overmuch fresher than I person successful different years," the barnstorming 30-year-old prop told Wide World of Sports.
"Now I've got nary niggles, my assemblage feels bully and I'm capable to person much crippled clip arsenic a result.
"And arsenic for Joe, helium is successful vocation champion form. I americium successful awe of him.
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"He is specified a unsafe subordinate and helium has it all… footwork earlier and aft the line, a lanky framework that makes him hard to bring down and a large offload.
"I spell retired determination each week knowing helium won't fto america down and that gives maine and the remainder of the battalion a immense magnitude of confidence."
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