Adam Blair
The secret to galvanising the Warriors this season didn't start on the field. In fact, it had nothing to do with rugby league at all.
I learned about leadership when I was 12. My old man, Willie, had been diagnosed with a brain tumour. I was the oldest of eight kids – Clifton, Ruben, Keni, Ngarei, Ngahuia, Rirena and Ngawai – and we lived on a farm in Panguru, a little place on the northern Hokianga harbour in Northland. …