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Blake Austin is a better 5/8 than Anthony Milford & Mitchell Moses

Pete Cash

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Hahah the poor bastard being left one on one with josh papalii constantly. The tigers have almost no structure in defence.
 
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I'm going to go on record here and admit that Moses has surprised me lately, and he can do more than I thought with ball in hand. But defensively he's a complete turnstile, and I still think he's destined for the ESL.
 

Clifferd

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I'm going to go on record here and admit that Moses has surprised me lately, and he can do more than I thought with ball in hand. But defensively he's a complete turnstile, and I still think he's destined for the ESL.
At the end of his career maybe but for the time being? No

I dunno if you've watched us earlier in the season but his defense was even worse than what it is now, he's come leaps and bounds since then

He's probably our 2nd most influential player behind teddy now.
 

Pete Cash

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I think he had a bad game in defence but he showed that he isnt a complete waster. Put his body on the line a few times. If he had support from inside it might have been a different story.

Defending the edges is about teamwork and trust. Nobody had any trust in each other to shut papalii down on those plays. They were all playing a different game to each other.

Walt pointed out that the tigers were obsessed with shutting down the centres so they kept rushing up on croker and joey opening up space for papalii and whitehead. There was no structure and moses by virtue of being the smallest bloke was the weak link.
 

Tommy Smith

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Moses will be a star in the long run. He does put his body on the line which is a good sign.

Lockyer was a tragic defender at 5/8 and yet still a world class player. Even Thurston is a pretty weak 1-on-1 defender. The key is that JT has bucketloads of guts and courage so with good coaching and teamwork there's no reason why Moses won't hold his own in the long run as well.

The worry is Brooks. Soft as butter and doesn't look any better now than he did two years ago.
 

Pete Cash

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If you guys had done well without pearce during his suspension i really thought the tigers should have gone all out for him to partner moses. They need a bloke like that in there imo.
 

Tommy Smith

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We made an attempt to sign Moses before he re-signed.

That would have been an awesome halves combo under Robbo.

I'm not fussed we didn't sign him though because the Tigers fans shouldn't have to endure losing Moses or Teddy. That'd be too cruel.
 

simmo1

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Most halves would struggle having to defend between Naqaima and a rookie second rower. There isn't a half in the game who gets isolated in defense as much as Moses.
 
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Bobby doesn't meltdown, he just dissappears off the face of the planet when made to look like a complete fool

Blabla...You, SomeBum, Sloppy & THE CHUMP are all the same generic Bronco posters to me. I can't differentiate between any of you. You're all 1 guy right?
 

blaza88z

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Like when broncos fans went suspicious missing during their losing streak ?

I was here the whole time, I never made a thread declaring someone to be better than another certain individual only to be proven wrong and chiming in when it best supported my argument (media releases etc), this thread has been a graveyard at times and Bobby has taken a hiatus on more than one occasion
 

Pete Cash

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I was here the whole time, I never made a thread declaring someone to be better than another certain individual only to be proven wrong and chiming in when it best supported my argument (media releases etc), this thread has been a graveyard at times and Bobby has taken a hiatus on more than one occasion

What do you want this thread being posted in all the time. It gets bumped whenever the Raiders play either the Broncos or Tigers or one of the three has a bad game.
 
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