WARRIORS prop Sam Rapira says he ''can't wait'' to meet Manly giant Jason King again in what shapes as a bone-rattling NRL round six clash at Brookvale Oval tonight.

King knocked out Warriors veteran Micheal Luck in a bad-tempered pre-season trial in Auckland, and escaped judicial action partly because of inadequate footage. But it seems the on-song Warriors pack won't stand for the same thing happening again.

''I can't wait to play against him - but I am not going to go looking for him,'' Rapira said of the 192 centimtres Sea Eagles skipper. ''If he's in my road, he's there. But I can't let little things like that [revenge] put me off.

''I enjoy playing over there, they are a good side, but if we do what we did on the weekend and do it better, we will be hard to stop. We can't just turn up and expect to win it, we have to work hard but if we turn up on the day, I can't see how we can't win.''

Fellow prop Jacob Lillyman agreed that the Manly pack were capable of niggling their opposition into a combative game. ''They are good at that,'' he said. ''They have got a few blokes who can get under your skin, and we have to try keep a lid on it.''

For a Warriors pack - Lillyman and Lewis Brown in particular - which has hit fine form in the past fortnight, facing a Manly six that includes King and internationals Glenn Stewart, Anthony Watmough and Brent Kite, is another step up.

''The last few weeks, they've [our props] been tremendous, especially on the weekend [when they beat the Roosters],'' Luck said. ''I thought the Roosters have a pretty good pack, big, aggressive and mobile. That's the benchmark now: we can't just pull out one of those a month, it's got to be every week.''

Lillyman saw it the same way. ''We've come across the Sharks, Roosters and now Manly, and those three probably top the pecking order [of packs] in the NRL,'' he said. ''So it's another great challenge.''

And much of Manly's best play comes through their back-rowers, Watmough and Stewart. ''They have two distinct styles on both edges,'' Luck said. ''With [Steve] Matai and Watmough, they come at you, and you have to man up to stop them. On the other side, they have a bit more finesse with Jamie Lyon and Glenn Stewart. And their middle guys do the same job for them every week. And their halves are going really well - Liam Foran is very dangerous, will take you on and throw a good pass, and Daly Cherry-Evans is getting better each week. It's a huge task, Brookvale is always hard, and we've seemed to struggle against them the last few years. We've got to continue our form of the past few weeks to beat them.''