Player Jackson Ford
- Thread starter WahsaurusRex
- Start date
- Date of Birth
- Feb 17, 1998
- Birth Location
- Shellharbour, New South Wales, Australia.
- Nationality
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Height (cm)
- 187 cm
- Weight (kg)
- 95 kg
- Position/s
- Second Row
- Lock
- Warrior #
- 276
- Warriors Debut Date
- Mar 3, 2023
- Warriors Debut Details
- March 3 2023, Round 1 vs Newcastle Knights at SKY Stadium, Wellington, New Zealand
- Warriors Years Active
- 2023
- 2024
- 2025
- Signed From
- St George-Illawarra Dragons
- Status
- Active
- Rugby League Project
- https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/jackson-ford/summary.html
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This thread is stupid. He's been one of our best all season
He's under sized for a middle and makes a mistake every now and then but he was working his butt off in that game both on attack and defence. I am not sure many will out do his effort, we need those type of players. I do wish we had someone better but I think he does a good job for us more often than not. We are not in a position to reject what he offers because it seems like we need it at the moment.
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1 penalty and 2 errors in 5 games. Averaging over 130m and 32 tackles/2 missed a game.
I feel he's been great this year.
I feel he's been great this year.
@moderators I am happy for this thread to be locked given there is consensus he has been good. I won't debate the point further.
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ok now closed and locked.
Ford cranked up to 50 and travelling smoothly on Auckland journey
AuthorWill EvansNRL Reporter
Mon 28 Apr 2025, 01:45 pm
Warriors forward Jackson Ford is the type of unassuming workhorse who avoids blowing his own trumpet to almost a painful degree.
But after a barnstorming maiden NRL double on top of his usual industrious efforts in the middle of the park, Ford' chest puffed out a little more when pressed about racking up his 50th game for the Warriors, after taking four seasons to accumulate 32 NRL appearances with the Dragons.
It’s clear Ford views himself as a long-term clubman in a Warriors squad short on superstars but brimming with grit and spirit, as emphasised by their top-four standing and 5-2 record heading into a Magic Round showdown with the Cowboys.
“It’s come up so quick to be honest, to think that I've come from the Dragons and now I've already hit up 50 for the Warriors – it’s just pretty good just to look back on," Ford said after the 26-12 ANZAC Day win over the Knights.
“I was coming over here for an opportunity, not even sure if I was going to play NRL, but to get 50 games that quick is pretty good achievement and I’m feeling at home in New Zealand as well.
“I [recently] got engaged to my partner (Victoria) and we’re set up well. We've got a house over here now, so we're settled in Auckland.”
Warriors co-captain Mitch Barnett was effusive in his praise after another big night in the front-row trenches with Ford.
“[He’s] someone that doesn’t complain about nothing when you put him out on the field,” Barnett said.
“He’s always going to turn up, doesn’t ask to come off and he’s that bloke you can count on. For us I’m just grateful we’ve got him in the team, firstly, but I’m really happy with how he’s going.”
A breakout player in the second row in 23 starting appearances during the Warriors’ unforgettable top-four charge in 2023 after arriving as an unheralded recruit from St George Illawarra, Ford endured a difficult follow-up season last year.
Moved from the second row to prop briefly mid-season, Ford dropped to the interchange and then ultimately out of the 17 for the Warriors’ last five games.
Ford’s inclusion for the Round 1 trip to Las Vegas in March surprised some but he has become an integral member of the Warriors’ pack again – with the rangy customer now exclusively regarded as a middle forward.
“At the start of pre-season, Webby told me he wants me to be in the middle this year, so I had a good pre-season there,” Ford told NRL.com.
“I’m just really trying to work on my connections with my middles and trying to keep laying those platforms where we want to get to on attack and find those spots.
“He's just seen some potential for some big minutes there. The game's getting so fast now and he thinks I've got a good motor, so just he wants to me get in there and do as many tackles, as many runs as I can and then get me off.”
Ford’s importance to the Warriors’ engine-room cause has only increased following Tohu Harris’ retirement, Dylan Walker’s early-season transfer to Parramatta and a recent injury to James Fisher-Harris.
Playing big minutes as a starting prop or from the interchange, Ford is averaging 33 tackles and 136 metres per game, as well as racking up 22 tackle-breaks in seven games. A rapid brace of tries soon after entering the fray against the Knights was just reward for his diligence.
“It hurts that we’ve had few good of our 13s that have left, but the young boys like ‘Dimmy’ (Demetric Vaimauga) and having Erin (Clark) come in as well, they're really good for our team to get those combinations going in the middle there,” Ford continued.
"I'm feeling good. Last year I had a few little niggles, so I’m just trying to stay healthy, stay fit, and just keep stacking up those games.”
Ford cranked up to 50 and travelling smoothly on Auckland journey
Warriors forward Jackson Ford is the type of unassuming workhorse who avoids blowing his own trumpet to almost a painful degree.
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Last 5 weeks have been great, has been between 140 and 150m per game, with errors and penalties lower than his last few years so clearly going in the right direction.
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He doesn’t strip the ball in front of the post in golden point!
What a way to celebrate a milestone game, I'd actually forgotten it was his 50th when he was scoring at will like that. Jacko should have his own fanclub like the cult of Rocco.Ford cranked up to 50 and travelling smoothly on Auckland journey
AuthorWill Evans
NRL Reporter
Mon 28 Apr 2025, 01:45 pm
Warriors forward Jackson Ford is the type of unassuming workhorse who avoids blowing his own trumpet to almost a painful degree.
But after a barnstorming maiden NRL double on top of his usual industrious efforts in the middle of the park, Ford' chest puffed out a little more when pressed about racking up his 50th game for the Warriors, after taking four seasons to accumulate 32 NRL appearances with the Dragons.
It’s clear Ford views himself as a long-term clubman in a Warriors squad short on superstars but brimming with grit and spirit, as emphasised by their top-four standing and 5-2 record heading into a Magic Round showdown with the Cowboys.
“It’s come up so quick to be honest, to think that I've come from the Dragons and now I've already hit up 50 for the Warriors – it’s just pretty good just to look back on," Ford said after the 26-12 ANZAC Day win over the Knights.
“I was coming over here for an opportunity, not even sure if I was going to play NRL, but to get 50 games that quick is pretty good achievement and I’m feeling at home in New Zealand as well.
“I [recently] got engaged to my partner (Victoria) and we’re set up well. We've got a house over here now, so we're settled in Auckland.”
Warriors co-captain Mitch Barnett was effusive in his praise after another big night in the front-row trenches with Ford.
“[He’s] someone that doesn’t complain about nothing when you put him out on the field,” Barnett said.
“He’s always going to turn up, doesn’t ask to come off and he’s that bloke you can count on. For us I’m just grateful we’ve got him in the team, firstly, but I’m really happy with how he’s going.”
A breakout player in the second row in 23 starting appearances during the Warriors’ unforgettable top-four charge in 2023 after arriving as an unheralded recruit from St George Illawarra, Ford endured a difficult follow-up season last year.
Moved from the second row to prop briefly mid-season, Ford dropped to the interchange and then ultimately out of the 17 for the Warriors’ last five games.
Ford’s inclusion for the Round 1 trip to Las Vegas in March surprised some but he has become an integral member of the Warriors’ pack again – with the rangy customer now exclusively regarded as a middle forward.
“At the start of pre-season, Webby told me he wants me to be in the middle this year, so I had a good pre-season there,” Ford told NRL.com.
“I’m just really trying to work on my connections with my middles and trying to keep laying those platforms where we want to get to on attack and find those spots.
“He's just seen some potential for some big minutes there. The game's getting so fast now and he thinks I've got a good motor, so just he wants to me get in there and do as many tackles, as many runs as I can and then get me off.”
Ford’s importance to the Warriors’ engine-room cause has only increased following Tohu Harris’ retirement, Dylan Walker’s early-season transfer to Parramatta and a recent injury to James Fisher-Harris.
Playing big minutes as a starting prop or from the interchange, Ford is averaging 33 tackles and 136 metres per game, as well as racking up 22 tackle-breaks in seven games. A rapid brace of tries soon after entering the fray against the Knights was just reward for his diligence.
“It hurts that we’ve had few good of our 13s that have left, but the young boys like ‘Dimmy’ (Demetric Vaimauga) and having Erin (Clark) come in as well, they're really good for our team to get those combinations going in the middle there,” Ford continued.
"I'm feeling good. Last year I had a few little niggles, so I’m just trying to stay healthy, stay fit, and just keep stacking up those games.”
Ford cranked up to 50 and travelling smoothly on Auckland journey
Warriors forward Jackson Ford is the type of unassuming workhorse who avoids blowing his own trumpet to almost a painful degree.
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Jackos wackos?
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The ford horde?
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The Jacko Ford Falcon Society - the JackoFFS
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