Game winner's emotional message to friend

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By Simon Brunsdon, Zachary Gates

Melbourne superstar Harry Grant utilized his post-game spotlight to nonstop a peculiar connection to adjacent person Nicho Hynes.

Grant had just won the season-opening crippled for the Storm, scooting from dummy fractional successful other clip to drawback the Eels napping and people a spectacular solo try.

And arsenic helium spoke to Nine's Danika Mason successful the aftermath, the 25-year-old champion's thoughts were with his mate who has been doing it tough.

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Hynes this week told reporters , "it's astir apt been the toughest clip successful my life", arsenic helium comes to grips with his mother, Julie, being successful jailhouse aft being recovered blameworthy of heroin supply.

Grant and Hynes played broadside by broadside astatine the Storm until the second near astatine the extremity of 2021 to instrumentality up a woody with Cronulla, with whom helium won past year's Dally M Medal.

"I conscionable privation to propulsion my enactment down 1 of my bully mates, Nicho Hynes," Grant told Nine.

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"He's copping a small spot astatine the moment.

"I conjecture it's a reminder to (everyone) that not lone footy players, but athletes are human, and they person a beingness extracurricular the footy.

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"Yeah, reasoning of you, mate, got your back."

Hynes has been ruled retired of circular 1 with a calf injury.

His Sharks instrumentality connected the Rabbitohs connected Saturday night.

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