Live: Maroons invite Jai Arrow into Origin camp, Raiders host depleted Dolphins

Hello everyone and welcome to Thursday night’s NRL!

It’s Origin time, which means we’re in that strange period where teams are not at full strength and almost all the attention is directed at the respective camps north and south of the Tweed.

But that’s not going to stop us from being enthused about the upwardly mobile Dolphins stepping a long way out of their comfort zone and into the nation’s capital to take on the Raiders this evening.

Yes, there are players missing – the Raiders are missing Blues callups Ethan Strange and Hudson Young.

Meanwhile, the Dolphins are without Maroons Selwyn Cobbo, Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow, Thomas Flegler, Max Plath and Kulikefu Finefeuiaki.

They are also without England’s Herbie Farnworth, who suffered a hamstring injury after being named in the side.

But look, I’m sure we’ll still have fun and look, I know it’s gunna mean a late finish, but at least you won’t have to be up early for school in the morning (in the ACT), right?

Anyway, welcome aboard.