Melbourne's Jahrome Hughes and Canberra's Jamal Fogarty were once mates on the same rugby league team with neither in the No.7 jersey. Ahead of their sudden-death clash at Melbourne's AAMI Park on Saturday, Hughes remembered one crunch match. "We had a pretty good team and I remember that game as we were flogging them and they came back and nearly beat us," Hughes told AAP. "It's pretty crazy that we're meeting again this Saturday. "He's probably taken the long road but he's done such a good job to get to where he is now and he's playing really good footy so it's good to see him doing well." "He leads them around the park and he's always been good at that since school days," Hughes said. "I'm really happy for him, although I'm hoping we get the win against him this week." "We need to start well because it takes too much energy out of everyone if we turn the ball over early and have to do a lot of defending and then we feel like we're on the backfoot the whole time," he said. "We need to front-load our energy into that first 10 minutes, hold on to the ball and get into a bit of a rhythm because if you don't do that it's tough to stay in the game. "We've done a great job over the last couple of weeks getting back into the game but that's not going to be good enough in a final."
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