Bathurst rugby league fans will get to see both this Saturday night, but it will come in the form of Melbourne Storm's Brandon Smith.

They are two of the nicknames that have been bestowed on the youngster who will bring muscle to Storm's bench for the round three NRL clash with Penrith Panthers.

"The block of cheese, I don't know what it means entirely, I've never ever seen a piece of cheese on the rugby league field - maybe it's because I'm cheesy, I don't know," Smith said.

"I don't mind Wombat, they're pretty solid little things, little solid bum.

"Block of cheese, I'll take whatever I can from Joey Johns - an immortal giving me a nickname, what a dream."

While Smith is happy to joke about his alternate monikers, he knows he will face a serious challenge on Saturday against a Panthers outfit hungry to climb the NRL ladder.

Whereas Storm has gone undefeated through its first two matches, Penrith went down in its season opener and only just snuck home against Newcastle last week.

The Panthers are yet to show their best, but Smith is expecting them to produce an improved performance.

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"We are looking to fire into Bathurst and take on a Penrith side which are hopefully very aggressive," he said.

"We look forward to playing in Bathurst as well, it's not a place that gets too much rugby league games there, so I'm looking forwards to it."

Though the young Kiwi's preferred position is hooker, NRL superstar Cameron Smith has a lock on Storm's number nine jersey.

So instead Smith has been injected into the game off the interchange bench as lock. Trying to build on the platform set by Storm's talented starting forward pack is a job he enjoys.

"I'm having a lot of fun to be honest, getting more minutes and Craig's [Bellamy, coach] putting his trust in me to play my own game, play how I want, he's not forcing anything on me and I'm just really enjoying footy at the moment," the 22-year-old said.

"We've got some big boys ... that gives us on the bench a lot of confidence to go out on the field and hopefully follow in their footsteps."

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Storm heads into the clash on the back of a solid preparation, the Bathurst fixture coming eight days after they downed the Raiders.

Smith hopes it will help Storm continue its winning ways.

"I think we've been training really well and as you know, it's been two eight-day turnarounds, so we've got lots of rest up our sleeves at the moment," he said.

"It makes the body feel a lot better. After last week's game, I'm a bit bruised up at the moment, so it's always good to rest up.

"Our record was a really good one during the first round and it's good we rolled on into round two with it. I just can't praise the boys enough with how we've started the season and hopefully we keep it rolling."

Kick-off in Saturday's match at Carrington Park is 7.35pm.