News: League: Unfamiliar role for Jones in comeback

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<p>Club legend Stacey Jones is preparing for an unfamiliar role when the New Zealand Warriors take on National Rugby League premiers Manly in Sydney on Sunday.</p><p>The champion halfback, who has come out of a one-year retirement to return to the NRL after three seasons away, will begin on the bench.</p><p>Jones, 32, has played a club record 238 games for the Warriors, almost all in the starting 13, before he left at the end of 2005 for the English Super League.</p><p>He needed to stop and think today when asked if he could remember how often he had come off the bench in his 11 previous seasons with the Auckland-based club.</p><p>"Maybe once, I think - my first game."</p>

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