Watching Konrad Hurrell play for Gold Coast in their narrow victory over Wests Tigers last week, I buzzed out about Koni playing his role in the Titans' three-headed beast. The Titans have a roster full of solid NRL players who do their job to near-precision, this is how they have been far more competitive this season than many people expected as these job-doers are doing exactly what Neil Henry needs them to do.

Then you've got Koni, Jarryd Hayne and Greg Bird ... and I'm certainly not taking the piss.

Bird is simply one of the best forwards in the NRL, equally as rugged as he is skillful. Bird has been a staple in this Titans team for a number of years and his spirit filters throughout this team, then the Titans added Koni and Hayne into the mix. Hayne is similar to Bird in that he is excessively good at many different aspects of footy; case and point being that he had 12 carries for 136m as a half, kicking 8 times for 206m and kicking that winning droppie.

Koni is just as influential as those two because when Koni gets the footy, there's impact. No one in this Gold Coast team runs as hard as Koni and very few NRL players possess the power of Koni.

Four players ran for over 100m against the Tigers and they were Bird, Hayne, Koni and Nene MacDonald.

No Gold Coast player had more carries than Koni's 16.

No Gold Coast player had more running metres than Koni's 156m (besides Nene MacDonald who had a length of the field try).

Gold Coast's other centre Josh Hoffman only had 5 carries for 47m vs Koni's 16/156m.

Hoffman touched the footy 8 times, Koni touched it 19 times.

Koni not only put Hoffman to shame, he also put Tim Simona (14/123m) and Kevin Naiqama (12/100m) to shame as well.

After a dip against the Warriors in which Koni only had 9 carries for 92m, Koni put up his fourth 150m+ plus game in five weeks.

One interesting note from this game was that Koni took the first hit up from one of the Tigers kick-offs, with coach Henry basically using Koni as a prop. Keep an eye on this as running it straight is precisely what Koni does best and it makes sense to use Koni as a battering ram on that first hit up, giving the Titans immediate go-forward and a touch of momentum.

This week, the Titans face Newcastle and this should be a game they win fairly easily. As one of the teams on the edge of the top-8, Gold Coast need to stack up wins and take matters into their own hands by grabbing 2 points at every opportunity. That should happen in Newcastle as the desperation of the Titans and their all-round firepower should be too much for a plucky Knights side.

Koni will likely line up against Peter Mata'utia, with Dane Gagai probably set to play on Newcastle's right edge. We could see Sione Mata'utia play on the same edge as his older brother as Sione's pretty much a forward these days, so that could be a tricky task for Koni's defence as he'll have to deal with a brotherly connection.

Newcastle do tend to miss tackles and leak points - they will win the wooden spoon so, ya know. This is perfect for Koni and while there's a chance that Koni could stay mellow in this game while his Gold Coast homies run riot, I'm going with Koni playing in rampant form. Coach Henry loves to use Koni and ever since I started the Koni Files, Koni has consistently got the footy close to the ruck and cutting back into the middle of the field with a development of that being him take the first up from the kick-off.

So expect Koni to get plenty of footy and lead the Titans down the field as Koni's just as much a weapon as anyone else in this team and I don't think the Knights will be too keen to get shoulders on to Koni.