THE Melbourne Storm are set to abort the Cameron Munster five-eighth experiment for the opening round with journeyman Ryley Jacks to make his NRL debut aged 24.

Storm coach Craig Bellamy will shift Munster to fullback instead of Young Tonumaipea, with Jacks to finally get a crack at his long-awaited NRL debut playing five-eighth on Melbourne’s left edge.

With champion No. 1 Billy Slater still getting himself mentally ready for an NRL return, the Storm have been toying with a variety of different scenarios in terms of who will play fullback for the opening rounds.

Despite spending the entire pre-season training at five-eighth, Munster will revert to the position he made his own last season when the young gun was a vital element of Melbourne powering all the way to the 2016 grand final.

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The unsung Jacks signed a one-year contract with the Storm at the end of last year after winning the player of the season award at Melbourne’s feeder club the Sunshine Coast Falcons in Queensland.

After starting his career at the Sydney Roosters in the under 20s as an understudy to halfback Mitchell Pearce in 2011, Jacks impressed at the Auckland Nines earlier this year and is a big-bodied playmaker.

He has previously spent time at the Newtown Jets and also in the Gold Coast Titans system but this will be his NRL debut at a hostile Belmore Oval against Canterbury-Bankstown.

Rookie half Brodie Croft is expected to drop off the Storm’s interchange bench with either Tonumaipea, Curtis Scott or Joe Stimson to claim the final place.

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