If you want to understand this guy from a body language perspective let me break down the Alpha male posturing from a body language read of Addin Fonua Blake and James
Fisher Harris.
The NRL billed the Sharks clash as Alpha vs Alpha. And they kindly did a split screen for us before kick off so we could see the stare down.
My own background is reading body language from growing up in the hood then applying that street knowledge to keep my head on my shoulders in a cage with head hunters, mongrel mob, hells angels and far far worse human beings.
Watch the Sharks replay at the start to see who wins the battle of the Dogs before they are unleashed in a pit fight.
You will see Fonua Blake is really affected, watch him hyper ventilate coming out the tunnel that is obviously his pscyh up tic right, he huffs and puffs to prep for a brawl.
Then he sees his opponent, turns his back on him then turns back and huffs and puffs some more. If you can Freeze frame at 2:19 seconds split screen.
AFB is wide eyed, full fight flight mode, mega stressed, Adrenalin level ten.
Now lets analyze
JFH. He squats down, his body language is deliberate, he is saying to his opponent, I do not give a shit, and I am insulting your haka. He even spits at the ground during the posturing which classic Alpha Prison block behavior.
And you will see
Fisher Harris barking at
Erin Clark (given we kicked it straight down Addins throat his yelling would be 'get up there and smash him, kick it straight at him).
Fisher Harris then stand up, which gives him power for what comes next, a screamed battle cry straight at
AFB.
In the animal Kingdom, the fighting dog, the pit bull, stays quiet while the Ker barks and yaps, the pit bull pulls on the leash before release and eyes the throat. That is what James did to Addin.
And Addin drops nuts for the rest of the game relative to his pregame talk about dominating
JFH.
In Jail, the Gang presidents sit while the enforcers pace the yard, the Pres has a hit man pacing next to them while the Pres spits at the ground, farts, scratch their nuts and generally give off an air of I don't give feck about you flexing at me....it interests me to see the exact same behaviors in people that have never been in the absolute depths of the underworld....it just shows body language and hierarchy's are universal.
No matter where the Jungle, the Jungle is the Jungle.
Tackle one, Addin Fonua Blake takes the hit up, turns his back in the contact,
Marata,
JFH, CLark, Healy try to gang bang him in a four on one,
Leka and Pomps are there too, so
JFH had five mates come in to try target
AFB tackle one.
Given Addins belief he carries a team on his own, and
JFH style of being a leader of men, that first tackle is poetic, an illustration of the difference between the Sharks and the Warriors.
It is emblematic of what was wrong at the Warriors last year 'the poison Addin was spreading, every man for himself' and what
JFH has brought to our club this year 'all in together, kick it to that loud mouth kient, on me, smash him'.
Given the back story that Addin Fonua Blake disrespected the Warriors, his team mates, the coach, the dressing room, and given
JFH came in to take the spot his entitled ass occupied, the power of that stare down and the silencing of
AFB by
JFH holds a power as the teams leader that you cannot buy, that was some
māori Battalion shit.
Our boys needed to see their Captain defeat their betrayer.
Look at our own posts when Addin split and we got this guy, most of us thought we lost someone a bit better than what we were getting but were happy we were getting someone that wanted to be here.
Now I can honestly say if Addin loved us and it was a choice between the two, sorry Addin we have the better player when you add up every calculus that a professional rugby league player brings to an NRL campaign, we have the better
Kevin Campion guy, we don't need the flat track bully prima donnas, we have a real hard man.
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