Same as players I saw in the 90's. Nothing much changed then.
Player Leka Halasima
- Thread starter mt.wellington
- Start date
- Full Name
- Salumiela Halasima
- Date of Birth
- Sep 21, 2005
- Birth Location
- Tofoa, Tonga
- Nationality
- 🇹🇴 Tonga
- Height (cm)
- 185 cm
- Weight (kg)
- 100 kg
- Position/s
- Second Row
- Nickname
- Leka, Junior
- Warrior #
- 289
- NRL Debut Date
- Jul 6, 2024
- NRL Debut Details
- 2024, Round 18, NZ Warriors v Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
- Warriors Debut Date
- Jul 6, 2024
- Warriors Debut Details
- 2024, Round 18, NZ Warriors v Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
- Warriors Years Active
- 2024
- 2025
- College/s
- Southern Cross Campus
- Signed From
- Southern Cross Campus
- Junior Club/s
- Pt Chevalier Pirates, Otahuhu Leopards
- Current Club
- NZ Warriors
- Status
- Active
- Rugby League Project
- https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/selumiela-halasima/summary.html
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I'm a dad and have dad humour because my kids think my life is redundant and obsolete. I just told them I recently updated to the latest release of me and my whole system is just due for a reboot and install.It was a joke. I come up pretty lame dad jokes when there's a bye
It will probably fly over everyone's heads except me mate @Worried2Death He has even worse dad jokes.
Anytime they tell me I'm just old I tell them their weak soft useless and would get destroyed by my childhood. And that's just the joking part of it.
i think alot of that sort of attitude wont be tolerated by the two Andys
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So tonight on NRL360 Leka won moment of the round.
He was then picked my Matty Johns in his top 5 in form players on Matty and Cronk.
He was then the headline on The Crowd Goes Wild.
He featured in three consecutive TV shows. Hopefully the Warriors are keeping him grounded but he is as talented as I have seen since SJ burst onto the scene.
He was then picked my Matty Johns in his top 5 in form players on Matty and Cronk.
He was then the headline on The Crowd Goes Wild.
He featured in three consecutive TV shows. Hopefully the Warriors are keeping him grounded but he is as talented as I have seen since SJ burst onto the scene.
Webster is good at that grounding crap. Really good. And he has managed Leka's development really well too.
He needs to be an eighty minute player, and we are aiming at that. Fans want impact, they want Try's and what not.
Sure that is a legitimate way to use an exfactor player. But the greatest players in Rugby league have everything, especially an engine, and you want them on the field at all times for those game turning moments.
He made some tackles that won us the game and they were because of his Power and speed, one was an epic run down, the other a man handling monstering Try stopper on the line. The hunger and ability to win those defensive moments is built off an eighty minute regimen. Your stock standard bench impact forward doesn't make many of those plays because frankly they are not mega fit.
They can use him both ways, bench some games, full game others depending on what is best for him, what he feels he can manage any given week.
And for the people that want Try's, it is obvious we have not worked out how to use this bloke yet, and having on the bench won't help that evolution.
Matt and Cooper nailed something I remember being said about talent and luck (It was a golfer who said this, but it still applies to any sportsperson):
Golfer gets asked about the luck he's been having: "Yeah, I have. And it's funny, but I've noticed, the more I practice, just seems the luckier I get..."
Leka according to everyone just wants to learn more and more, practice more and more...
Sunday Night just highlighted a Warriors Golden Rule: When The Warriors Are Losing Or Winning by 6 Or Less In the 79th Minute, Do NOT Turn Off The TV/Walk Out Of The Stadium Because The 79th Minute Result May Not Be The 80th Minute Result.
Golfer gets asked about the luck he's been having: "Yeah, I have. And it's funny, but I've noticed, the more I practice, just seems the luckier I get..."
Leka according to everyone just wants to learn more and more, practice more and more...
Sunday Night just highlighted a Warriors Golden Rule: When The Warriors Are Losing Or Winning by 6 Or Less In the 79th Minute, Do NOT Turn Off The TV/Walk Out Of The Stadium Because The 79th Minute Result May Not Be The 80th Minute Result.
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If he keeps up with this trajectory he will become an NRL great not just a warriors great. As someone mentioned a week or 2 back, it's not just the x factor plays he shows up at, he's there doing al the basics when needed.
That try saver by him was also a bloody impressive solo effort.
Then you have vaimauga and Laban who are impressive in there own ways and we have very exciting times ahead.
That try saver by him was also a bloody impressive solo effort.
Then you have vaimauga and Laban who are impressive in there own ways and we have very exciting times ahead.
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He's crap. Get rid of him.
Just 6 or less?
The amount of times we've conceded 2 or 3 tries in the last few minutes to lose a game is traumatic
That play made it to the front of the r/sports page. Plenty of Americans on there curious about the rules of rugba leege and commenting on the celebrations.
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Great post. Written in our old barracks door was "Luck is when preparation meets opportunity"
Leka Halasima: Who is the Warriors star lighting up the NRL in his rookie season?
Rookie forward Leka Halasima has etched his name into Warriors folklore as a cult hero after scoring a stunning solo, game-winning try against the Newcastle Knights on Sunday.The 19-year-old swooped on a charged-down Tanah Boyd field goal after the siren sounded then accelerated away into open space, stepping the fullback before carrying three Knights defenders over the line to score, clinching a 20-15 win in Newcastle.
In just 21 games, Halasima has produced numerous highlights with twinkle-toe footwork, bruising tackles and audacious carries.
But who is Selumiela “Leka” Halasima?
He is one of two current top-30 players who do not have a Wikipedia page, so what is his background before becoming a Warriors star?
Halasima was born on September 21, 2005 in Tonga’s village of Tofoa.
Prior to his journey in the Warriors’ development system, Halasima was a Māngere East Hawks and Ōtāhuhu Leopards junior and attended school at Southern Cross Campus in Māngere East, where he played both codes.
Before committing to league, he featured in many Auckland Rugby Union representative teams and he was part of a Blues Under-18 Development squad.
In 2022, he featured in a World Schools Sevens tournament that was staged in New Zealand and later in the year featured in the West Auckland team who won the inaugural Dean Bell Cup, the representative age-group competition that was launched by Auckland Rugby League.
Halasima was then selected for the New Zealand Clubs 18s Boys team for the annual Clubs v Schools national representative fixtures, following a stellar campaign at the National Youth Tournament for the Auckland Vulcans.
He rose through the Warriors’ pathways ranks, being named the club’s 2023 SG Ball Cup Player of the Year, scoring two tries, making 35 tackle busts and averaging 125 running metres in six matches.
Later that year, he made his Warriors New South Wales Cup debut as a 17-year-old and has since gone on to make 30 appearances for the reserves.
He also represented Tonga A in a match against New Zealand A.
In 2024, he was a regular in the NSW Cup, scoring six tries in 18 games, averaging 103 running metres and 56 tackle busts.
His form led him to making his NRL debut with the Warriors in their round-18 clash against the Canterbury Bulldogs, becoming Warrior No 289 in the 52nd minute –and with his first carry, he bowled over Bailey Hayward.
Later in the match, he nearly scored the match-winner with a magical run, where he looked like a giraffe.
Halasima finished 2024 with four appearances for the Warriors.
In 2025, he has played every game this season and has scored eight tries, averaging 91 run metres per game and completing 93% of his tackles.
In the first five games, he came off the bench in limited minutes, but has since started 11 matches with six 80-minute performances.
His first career try came in the round-four win over the Wests Tigers where he made a break down the sideline to level the match, before Luke Metcalf’s late penalty goal secured the win.
Halasima has already earned high praise from coach Andrew Webster and his teammates, with co-captain James Fisher-Harris calling him a “freak”.
Halasima is known to be a shy character and made headlines after the Warriors’ win over the Sharks following an awkward post-match interview with former Kiwi and TV pundit Daryl Halligan.
In May, the Warriors re-signed Halasima through until the end of the 2029 NRL season, which means fans will hopefully get to see plenty more audacious plays in the coming years.
Ben Francis is an Auckland-based reporter for the New Zealand Herald who covers breaking sports news.
Who is Warriors rookie sensation Leka Halasima?
The 19-year-old is on track to becoming the Warriors' latest cult hero.
His "Shy, but not really" attitude is similar to Konrad Hurrell I really hope he doesn't go down the same track of wasting his talent
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Halasima has good footy instincts, you could see it in the anticipation of the chargedown and the way he sets himself to pick the ball up to allow him to accelerate towards the tryline. He’s also got a good workrate defensively.
He will have a slump at some point in the next season or two, how the coaching staff deal with that will be a big key. We didn’t manage Katoa well when that happened for him. I’m confident he’ll be managed better by Webby than Katoa was by Brown.
He’s an incredibly exciting prospect the best we’ve had since SJ in 2011. As an edge forward you could argue the best prospect since SBW, although Fifita promised a lot more than he has delivered.
He will have a slump at some point in the next season or two, how the coaching staff deal with that will be a big key. We didn’t manage Katoa well when that happened for him. I’m confident he’ll be managed better by Webby than Katoa was by Brown.
He’s an incredibly exciting prospect the best we’ve had since SJ in 2011. As an edge forward you could argue the best prospect since SBW, although Fifita promised a lot more than he has delivered.
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He was halfway to the tryline before anyone figured out what was going on. That first 5-6 metres was just pure power
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