LIVE: NRL cult hero drops pregame superstition

Toby Rudolf's pregame mentation this play is going to look a small antithetic - he's passing successful each of his sports superstitions.

From belting retired a philharmonic tune to going for an aboriginal dip, heading into his 4th season, Rudolf has decided to scrap his long-standing pregame rituals.

"I utilized to person to sing Frozen's Let It Go, I cognize each the words, and it would get my lungs pumping earlier a game," helium said.

"If I had a antagonistic thought oregon thought astir injuring myself, I had to interaction wood somewhere.

"I would devour spaghetti bolognese with an utmost magnitude of capsicum the nighttime earlier a game.

"And I ever had to spell for a aquatics astatine 10.30am connected crippled day, which was hard sometimes if it was an aboriginal crippled erstwhile playing reserve grade.

"Now I'm astir to suffer the hairsbreadth - I'm letting spell of my last superstition."

Rudolf volition shave his caput arsenic portion of the the Leukaemia Foun­da­tion's World's Greatest Shave connected March 15.

According to the prop, helium mislaid his mojo aft past cutting his signature locks astatine the extremity of 2016 - truthful his agelong hairsbreadth has provided a consciousness of comfortableness since.

"That full twelvemonth I played with abbreviated hairsbreadth I was s--t," helium said.

"I moved to Redcliffe the pursuing year, grew my hairsbreadth backmost out, won the Duncan Hall Medal [for champion subordinate successful the Queensland Cup expansive final], the Sharks signed me, and I made my NRL debut.

"I've had a batch of luck with the hair. But I'm astir to get escaped of it all."

Rudolf volition enactment up against his aged broadside erstwhile Cronulla big South Sydney astatine PointsBet Stadium connected Saturday night.

"I'm looking guardant to taking disconnected Jai (Arrow's) caput - and helium has a large head, too," Rudolf said.

"I'd emotion to get astatine Tom Burgess, Cam Murray, Damien Cook, the database goes on. I'd emotion to smash Cody Walker. The annoying happening is he's smashed maine each clip I've played against him. I support moving consecutive astatine him. We'll spot however we spell Saturday."