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SHAUN Kenny-Dowall is listed at 194cm and 102kg — it's just that he seemed much smaller and lighter when Greg Inglis ran at him on Thursday night.
Inglis scored South Sydney's first try of 2014, despite the efforts of Kenny-Dowall and the smaller Mitchell Pearce to halt the Rabbitohs No.1 at close range, and opened with a hat-trick an NRL season which he is capable of making his own like none before.
At 27, Inglis is in the prime of his career, and importantly, injury-free after he played the last six club games of 2013 and the subsequent World Cup campaign with a sore knee.
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His achievements are already towering: 115 tries from 178 NRL games and 21 games for Queensland which have made him Origin's greatest try-scorer, with 15.
His 22 tries from 28 Tests leave him behind only Darren Lockyer (35 tries), Ken Irvine (33) and two Immortals Reg Gasnier (28) and Bob Fulton (25) on the list of Australian tryscorers.
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But to look at how much Inglis is capable of adding to his standing in the game, it's instructive to look at what Lockyer and Andrew Johns did in the years after they turned 27.
At 27, Lockyer was moved to five-eighth by Wayne Bennett while Queensland lost the Origin series and the Broncos were out of the 2004 finals in straight sets — it was the year Brisbane consented to a finals game being given away to Townsville — he captained Australia to a 40-point Tri-Nations final win over Great Britain.
Two years later, Lockyer became the first man since Allan Langer in 1998 to captain sides to club, Origin and international titles.
Johns turned 27 in 2001, the year in which the Knights won the premiership with their halfback and captain the Churchill Medallist, later being awarded the Golden Boot.
The following year, Johns became captain of successful NSW and Australian sides, winning the Dally M player of the year honour before Newcastle's finals run ended when he was diagnosed with a broken bone in his back.
So in 2014, there is plenty of upside still in Inglis.
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When he first arrived in 2011 at Souths, from Melbourne via an aborted dalliance with Brisbane, Inglis raised eyebrows with his weight.
But he has felt at home at Souths to the point that he been willing to voice his opinions as a member of the leadership group.
Last year, Inglis, a man of few words publicly, was willing to be critical within Souths' dressingroom walls of the amount of promotional work Sam Burgess did before a game two weeks before the finals.
It's hard to imagine Inglis, reserved even among teammates early in his time at the Storm, doing so much earlier in his career.
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A committed Inglis is a blue-chip asset for an NRL club, as we saw with his determination to make the fullback position his own last year with 14 tries in 20 club games, with 121 tackle busts, the most by an NRL player last year.
"It looks like he's playing in the under-sevens at times," said Souths teammate John Sutton of the imposing sight which Inglis presents when fully fit and well deployed.
Roosters skipper Anthony Minichiello wrestled with the idea of how to stop Inglis in full flight with more success than his side had done.
"You try and tackle up top and it's so hard (to halt him) — our tackling wasn't up to scratch,'' he said.
Fox Sports analyst Matt Johns said last year Souths had too great a reliance in attack on Inglis and he liked the move of Dylan Walker to five-eighth, with Sutton to lock.
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