"I just love watching him play and let him do what he's doing," Holmes said. "He usually beats a few players before he gets (it) to me and lucky enough he did up Morris there and got me there in the corner."

Kinship: Jack Bird and Valentine Holmes. Credit:Getty Images

Holmes still had plenty of work to do and on Thursday revealed how he spends hours of overtime after Sharks training sessions practising his athletic finishes that have become his trademark.

Holmes, though, believes Bird takes the cake for his unpredictability in attack. "I've always just got to be aware and be awake to anything that he does," he said of the classy utility.

"I was lucky enough to push up there and I had no idea he was going to flick that but I knew he had that in his game and he just got it around somehow."