Joel Gould (AAP)   

Dolphins winger Selwyn Cobbo received a boost ahead of the NRL preliminary final after winning Queensland's best player award for the State of Origin series.

All the hype has been around the early return of Sydney Roosters halfback Sam Walker from injury but Dolphins coach Kristian Woolf has full faith his own No.

When former Queensland fast bowler Eddie Gilbert, the late great-great grandfather of Selwyn Cobbo, dismissed Don Bradman for a duck in 1931 everyone soon found out about his home town of Cherbourg.

Dolphins bench blitz merchant Kurt Donoghoe learned plenty from his final year under Wayne Bennett's coaching about risk and reward and it's helped him to the cusp of an NRL grand final.

Tearaway prop Shannon Mato won a premiership with Brisbane in her debut season but now being a mother to infant son Charnze-Pati has given her a different purpose as she chases a second title.

Re-signed Dolphins powerhouse Kulikefu Finefeuiaki has turned himself into an 80-minute second-rower but it was a first-up meeting with coach Kristian Woolf that won him over.

Erin Clark has emerged as one of the game's best locks and Warriors legend Clinton Toopi says it's due to a re-discovery of who he is as a footballer. The 29-year-old will start in the No.

Good manners and elite presentation can take you a long way in life, just ask re-signed Dolphins winger Tevita Naufahu. The 20-year-old was the first graduate from the inaugural Dolphins academy to pl...