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The science has been in for a while: Payne Haas is not quite human.

Long before he put the Broncos on his back last Sunday and finished his Herculean, 80-minute effort against the Panthers with a 35-metre sprint and tackle on Nathan Cleary, we knew the Brisbane giant was something extra special.

Rugby league has run out of words to describe his endurance efforts. Maybe because we still don’t quite know how the game’s best prop does it.

So, ahead of a grand final showdown with the Storm club he could have joined as a teenager , here goes.

The Haas machine is fuelled by about $350 worth of high-end, export quality meat from the best butcher in Brisbane every week, and six shots of coffee a day.

At 194cm and 119kg, Haas is not only among the fittest players at the Broncos, b

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