NRL Highlights: Storm v Raiders - Round 17

What a luxury is that to bring it so far along though when Pat and Alison is here. So here we go, it's the Melbourne Storm and the Canberra Raiders have had so many dig Dong battles over the last few years and here we go with Joey Tarponi first to hit it up. Final play hit the sense. It's a big moment here. Hughes certainly be a contest. Hughes went down hard after that kick, batted back, Whitehead coming through, Howarth getting a touch and now once he got here, Graham Anderson with the kick and the chase coming through, Anderson's claiming it. Anderson is claiming a try and this will go upstairs. Go come here and take the 6th night or Graham Anderson makes contact with the ball, it goes forward. He just didn't ground. You have a decision so it ends up being a fantastic result for Canberra. Seems to have been camped at this MCGM. Now it's used out it goes far longer surely puddled into touch. Albert Hopawati. Massive try saver. What a tackle here from Albert Hopawati. Give me a second bash. I've got no try tackle too. It's the hand on the shoulder and then it slips up around the neck, region up and it makes contact with the neck. This is a penalty playing at this stage, OK, and then that's it's just a ball, but I'm happy with that. I think it's the right call. The work from Hopawadi spectacular. Looking for the quick play of the ball. Smith is holding on garlic and Oh my goodness it just opened up for Josh King and Josh King has tries in back-to-back games. Well Can you believe that? All the attack Melbourne has mustered and that's how the first try has scored. I wish I'd try to plug a kick. Oh, Koya Weeks has breaks them open and he's away. He comes to the full back far longer, which just eases around him. Absolutely sensational. And just like that the Raiders score. It was Wishart down the short side set up beautifully and the change of pace in between Wishart and Hughes and the acceleration. Look at this around Far Longo, who himself has got some wheels. He just blew him straight to the outside. Look at him, he's in second gear, like an American sprinter down the far touch line. Kayo weeks, what pace? That's extraordinary what he just did that far longer with these contain though, particularly Mooney Final play Jesus said it's gone quickly now. A simple charge over garlic again channelling Harry Grant as he puts short war over Melbourne can't tour with the front men. Six more tackles. That's the 6th set restart they've received. Hughes called the shots on it goes to Haworth muscles his way over Jack Haworth too strong and it's garlic again out of dummy. Harvey finds Hughes who go short. You can see there couple of forwards for the Raiders caught down the short side in Mooney and Mariota and Hughes just too clever for that, Squares up Mariota, Vaughn's Mooney sliding and Jack Howarth just gets on the outside shoulder close to the line and gets the ball down and they're heading for top two for 1/7 time in the last nine years. Hughes happy to just turn it over right near the try line. Well, the Canberra Raiders have been brave. They've shown ticker that was perhaps lacking their last couple of games, but to beat the mighty Melbourne Storm, the precision has to be there as well and they've fallen just short, the Canberra Raiders. But the Melbourne Storm, they do it yet again. They find ways each and every time it seems, and they win. They're forked in a row, but at what cost? Full time at Amy Park, Melbourne 16, Canberra 6.