As exciting as the 'Tohu Harris joining the Warriors' news is, Harris won't be making his way to Mt Smart for a long time. Harris' arrival will coincide with Ryan Hoffman's departure and while I could write a whole thingy-ma-jig about how damn exciting it is to snap up a player of Harris' quality, there's more immediate news about the captaincy.

Hoffman's likely departure came with the decision to promote Roger Tuivasa-Sheck to be the club's skipper, with Simon Mannering as his deputy. Despite trying his best to perform, keep his cool and lead valiantly in what was a reasonably shitty season for the Warriors, Hoffman never really looked super confident as the club's skipper. One memory sticks out; Hoffman sprinting in from his edge spot to niggle and start a discussion with a referee against Manly. It was weird and not the best look for a club that has a perception problem with their 'culture'.

Funnily enough, in the past 12 months I have spun yarns regarding the greatness and future greatness of both Tuivasa-Sheck and Harris. There could be a serious argument made for Harris to be the club captain when he arrives, the most logical decision though is to roll with Tuivasa-Sheck.

Mannering will offer his calm, steady influence from a position of little responsibility while Tuivasa-Sheck effectively becomes the face of the club. There really aren't too many blokes at Mt Smart who are better choices than Tuivasa-Sheck and that Kearney has put such a role in Tuivasa-Sheck's hands reflects how much Tuivasa-Sheck would have impressed Kearney over the past few months.

We call Tuivasa-Sheck, Mr 200m around these ways, so it's safe to say that he's the type of player who will lead with a 'follow me' style of leadership. I'd be repeating myself far too much if I went down the route of explaining how important RTS is to the success of the Warriors on the field, what's really interesting here is what RTS offers away from his duties as a fullback (a top-five NRL fullback).

RTS is young, he's Samoan and he's about as good-natured as they come. The Warriors have a bloke who has better footwork than Shaun Johnson, without the polarizing nature of Johnson. Casual punters will struggle to find fault in RTS' game and the level of professionalism gained from his time at the Roosters will ensure that RTS is able to instill these values to younger squad members, most of whom share a similar story to RTS.

For those who lament the culture of the Warriors - bordering on some level of racism as most of their 'culture' complaints focus on the polynesian playing base - the decision to make RTS captain of the Warriors is telling. We had the gritty Aussie captain and that didn't quite work, now we've got the young Samoan from South Auckland as NZ Warriors captain.