Injuries will play a big part in the top 4..
I still think we'll finish 3rd or 4th but losing Barrnet could throw us..
I'm not 100% about Fish..he hasn't really lived up to his super star reputation..I have a lot of faith in Leka and the young guys..our reserves are oozing talent..
Plus..we need a kicker real soon..
Harris plays a role like Kevin Campion and Simon Mannering did for us.
He is the glue player, but for our middles.
It has taken me a while to get my head around what it is he actually does because like you I couldn't see it till I realized the usual metrics I look for in a Prop are not what JFH does in a team.
He doesn't bend the line.
His post contact meters are nothing spectacular.
He doesn't have late footwork at the line.
He doesn't offload or ball play.
So yeah on the surface he isn't the type of Prop we usually pay big money to.
What he does very well is win the ruck.
As I say I watched him really closely, when he comes in for the tackle, he secures the ball, he hits with some sting, and he wins the wrestle to the ground.
On other side of the ball he has a decent play the ball speed. With him in our team not many props can bully us when they run into him.
But his main strength is even more subtle, his fitness means his output stays the same, and if you needed him to, he could keep going for eighty minutes.
He runs a hell of a lot of decoys for us, so it was interesting to hear him acknowledge that when asked about his first try for the Warriors, he said he has run that line hundreds of times and that was the first time he had been given the ball (massive hint their to our ball players).
We all know he is a rugged customer, strong silent type, he got the better of AFB, and that is not the first time, he has dominated AFB against Tonga too.
According to all the noise at the Warriors coming from behind the scenes, JFH is a Campion type figure, the young guys are from what I have been told champing at the bit to get to training and be around him, it is a repeat of that famous Story where the young Warriors first saw Kevin Campion on the Tricep pull down machine in the gym and they started saying 'if the Broncos hardman is prepared to come here then maybe we aren't a bunch of losers'.
Harris has an aura, and that translates on feild to our pack to be fearless. We really could have done with that presence against Canberra when they bullied us.
