Cameron Munster has returned to full contact training and is expected to play his first game of the NRL season next weekend.
Melbourne's star five-eighth has been sidelined since the preseason, when he slipped getting out of the shower and injured his groin.
Munster's return-to-play timeline has been unclear across the opening three rounds of the season, with inconsistent and unpredictable recovery from day to day.
In the first week of the season, he said he "can't really get out of a jog", adding that despite scans and tests "we can't t really find out what the problem is".
"It's pretty frustrating," he told Channel Nine.
"The physio hasn't really given me a time frame. Today I was really sore and yesterday I was pretty good."
Last week, he said the recovery was still up and down, but he was building towards a return and still needed to get some conditioning into his legs.
"I ran on Saturday pretty well, but then on Monday didn't run well at all," he said last week on The Clubhouse podcast with teammate Jahrome Hughes and Ryan Papenhuyzen.
The Storm had last week been hopeful he would return to face Brisbane in round five after the bye this weekend.
Doubts were cast over those plans last week after Storm great Cameron Smith was caught on ...
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