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Once touted as the next big thing, Nu Brown looks set to get his chance to prove his worth in James Maloneys absence for the depleted Cronulla this weekend.Brown appears set to play his first NRL match in two years as Shane Flanagans side feels the effects of the representative period talent drain.The 21-year-old Samoan Test representative was heavily hyped when he came into grade in 2014 but an ACL injury suffered at last years Auckland Nines set him back a season while the acquisition of Maloney and Chad Townsend sent him down the pecking order.He got his first taste of first grade in 2014, thrown into the halves in the back end of the season following Todd Carneys sacking for the infamous bubbler photo incident and managed 11 games that year.He is also well remembered as the player who microwaved his iPhone in an attempt to recharge it.Hes been impressive so far in what hes been doing in NSW Cup and his game for Samoa, Townsend told AAP.If he gets the chance, Ill definitely be confident he can do the job.Brown trained alongside Townsend in the halves at Southern Cross Group Stadium and looks set to be among a host of new names for the ladder-leading Sharks this weekend.The Sharks face the startling prospect of going into Sundays clash with the Panthers at Pepper Stadium as rank outsiders despite riding a club-record 12 NRL streak.Without Maloney, Paul Gallen, Andrew Fifita, Jack Bird and Wade Graham, who are away on State of Origin duties, they face the biggest test of their three-month-long winning run.Having used just 19 players all season, they are expected to blood five new faces including Brown, giving them the first real test of their depth in the 2016 season.With dominant playmaker Maloney away, Townsend said he expected fullback Barba to get his hands on the ball a lot more and to be given a creative licence.I think (Barba) was a little bit hard done by, by not be picked for Queensland. Hes in some of the best form of his career, Townsend said.Its a pleasure to watch - him in a bit of space is what we want to see.I think this weekend with Jimmy missing, we will see Benny step up and get a bit more ball in his hand and stand up a bit more at first receiver and take a bit of pressure off the boys.Mitch Brown is expected to get his first call up of the year while former Manly forward Jesse Sene-Lefao is expected to make his club debut.Winger Valentine Holmes (hamstring) is expected to return after missing Saturdays win over Parramatta however Ricky Leutele is in doubt with an ankle problem. Kyle Okposo Jersey .com) - Christian Ponder will get another chance to prove himself for the Minnesota Vikings, with head coach Leslie Frazier announcing Wednesday that the struggling quarterback will start this weekends game against the Green Bay Packers. Pat Lafontaine Jersey . 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Gilbert Perreault Jersey .25 million option on reliever Jose Veras.The duel between Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic promises to be the dominant story of next week’s ATP World Tour Finals. On the line is not just a title, money and the prestige of victory, but also the right to start 2017 as the No 1-ranked player in the world. The stakes at this late stage of a year have seldom been as high.One man, however, is plotting a different narrative. Live Tennis: ATP World Tour Finals November 13, 2016, 12:00pm Live on Get Sky Sports Get a Sky Sports pass Stan Wawrinka has made a habit of ripping up scripts over the past three seasons and all of the signs suggest he is ready to do it again at the O2.His record at the event is not in itself outstanding and can be viewed in one of two ways: three successive semi-final appearances hinting at pedigree but a career record of six wins and six defeats suggesting vulnerability. Wawrinka has been a semi-finallist in each of the past three years The 31-year-old Swiss also arrives in London in poor form, after exits in the last 16 of the Shanghai Masters and the quarter-finals in Basel were followed by a meek defeat to world No 91 Jan-Lennard Struff in the last 32 of the Paris Masters last week.But Murray, Djokovic and the other tournament hopefuls should beware the wounded animal, because Wawrinka has proven in recent years to be a tennis alchemist capable of turning dreadful sequences of results into silverware at subsequent Grand Slams.He went to both the 2015 French Open and this years US Open on the back of a spree of abject performances and humbling defeats yet won both, and he wasnt exactly on fire in the build-up to his 2014 Australian Open triumph either.The problem for rivals is that, once he gets on a roll, he is near-impossible to stop. Not even pressure seems to affect him. ATP Finals: The groups Who will play who in the round robin at the O2 In fact, the biggest stages tend to bring out his best performances and all three of those Grand Slam final appearances - two against Djokovic and one against Rafael Nadal - ended in bludgeoning, three-sets-to-one wins.And it isnt just Slam finals where Wawrinka flourishes. His return of 15 wins from 25 career finals is not sparkling as such, but his 11 victories from his past 12 finals - stretching back to January 2014 -- is unparalleled anywhere in the sport, better than both Djokovic and Serena Williams.dddddddddddd Mark Petchey believes Andy Murrays group could not have been harder It would have been a perfect 12 in a row had it not been for a shock defeat to 19-year-old German Alexander Zverev in the final of the St Petersburg Open in September, an anomalous result that leaves his record in finals in 2016 at a still-impressive four wins and one defeat.New rankings-topper Murray will also be conscious of the fact that Wawrinka has won all three times he has faced the world No 1 in a final, so should the pair meet in next Sundays title decider, the in-form Scot may well be favourite in the bookmakers eyes but definitely not in his opponents. Wawrinka defeated Novak Djokovic in the final of Septembers US Open Murray, Djokovic and co must therefore hope that Wawrinka doesnt get that far, and Djokovic, in particular, will no doubt have been pleased to see him drawn alongside Murray, Kei Nishikori and Marin Cilic in what is considerably the hardest of the two groups.Whether they can conspire to knock him out remains to be seen, but one certainty over the coming week is that the finals will be about much more than Murray v Djokovic as long as Wawrinka is around.Watch every day of the ATP World Tour Finals, from November 13-20, live on Sky Sports. Full schedule here. Watch NOW TV Watch Sky Sports for just ￡6.99. No contract. Also See: Murray handed tough draw Tour Finals at the O2 Murrays year in numbers 2015 final: Djokovic v Federer ' ' '