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MELBOURNE - Australian and NSW back rower Ryan Hoffman has signed a four-year contract extension with Melbourne Storm that will keep him at the NRL club until the end of 2012.
Hoffman, 25, made his Storm debut in 2003 and has played 129 NRL games for the club.
He is one of five Melbourne internationals who will play in the club's opening 2009 trial match against the New Zealand Warriors in Hamilton on Thursday.
Fellow Kangaroos Dallas Johnson and Cooper Cronk and New Zealand internationals Sika Manu and Wairangi Koopu have also been named in the 22-man squad to take on the Warriors.
Melbourne
Brett Anderson, Dane Nielsen, Willie Isa, Joseph Tomane, Andre Itula, James Maloney, Cooper Cronk, Scott Anderson, Ryan Hinchcliffe, Louis Fanene, Sika Manu, Ryan Hoffman, Dallas Johnson, Hep Cahill, Sam Joe, Jade Williams, Wairangi Koopu, Kevin Proctor, Clifford Manua, Matt Cross, Zeb Tahwa, Dane Chisholm.
- AAP