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When a player starts dictating to the club where he plays in the team then it's time for him to bugger off. Hayne in his early years pulled that stunt if I remember correctly but that was a one-off. Some of these guys should be grateful someone wants to employ them in the first place.
Seems even more likely now that he was having a sulk that game Gunco returned and went straight to fullback. His form hardly demands he get the number one anyway. Doesn't even demand a spot at all tbh.
Isn't that the same as dictating to the club where he expects to play?
Why Mitchell Moses was ‘over footy’, and the man who stopped him from walking away
EELS
- August 1, 2018 3:00pm
- SIMON BRUNSDON@simonbrunsdon
- Source: FOX SPORTS
Mitchell Moses of the Eels almost walked away from rugby league.Source: AAP
MITCHELL Moses could barely find the energy or motivation to get in the car and drive to football training.
Parramatta’s NRL season had sunk to such lows he admits he was “over footy”, and just about ready to walk away from the game.
Such was the mental toll of the Eels’ horror 2018 campaign, which currently has them sitting on the bottom of the ladder and facing the prospect of a wooden spoon.
Moses had been through it all before. Four lean years at the Wests Tigers should have hardened the young playmaker against a cycle of losing.
But it hadn’t. And this was the year it almost finished him.
“There’s been times when I’ve been completely over footy,” a candid Moses revealed this week.
“I think because of the effort, the effort we put in every week with the boys. If you came to our training you wouldn’t think that we’re coming last.
Mitchell Moses of the Eels looks on following another loss.Source: AAP
“We train the house down every week and every day, we don’t give an excuse to Brad (Arthur) to say you’re training shit so that’s why it is on the field.
“We do train well and we do put in with all the games, there’s just key moments when we go missing for five or 10 minutes and that’s the game.
“That’s what is so frustrating about it and that’s why I feel like that sometimes.”
Moses has even stopped watching rugby league on his days off, because his relationship with the game has been so impacted by the devastation.
“I haven’t watched much this year because it’s taken a lot out of me.
“I used to love watching footy, I used to try to watch every single game but this year has taken a bit out of me.”
The pain of losing every week was grinding Moses down.
But one man helped keep him on track, and stopped him packing it all in and walking away.
Joe Wehbe — the man dubbed the “football whisperer” — is a confidant and mentor to a number of the NRL’s biggest stars.
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He previously worked with Moses when he was at the Tigers, and the pair have maintained their relationship since the latter moved to Parramatta last year.
Moses revealed it was Wehbe who helped keep the halfback sane during this dismal season.
“I do a lot of stuff with Joe Wehbe. I try to see him every week,” he said.
“It’s obviously been a tough year and I’ve always leaned on him (to help with) how I go about myself.
“He’s not just helping me on the field, he helps me off the field big time.
“I definitely feel like the last couple of weeks I’ve been doing a lot of stuff with him and I feel like I am getting back to the form I was in last year.
“He’s been a big impact on me … not football but just life.
“He’s been a big help and I imagine if you ask a couple of other boys around here they will say the same thing.
“That’s why I’m lucky to have a person like him, he’s helped me massively this year.”
Wehbe was also photographed meeting with Jarryd Hayne recently, and it’s believed he has been helping a number of Parramatta players cope with the pressures of playing in a losing side.
Mitchell Moses of the Eels runs with the ball.Source: AAP
For Moses, he believes he’s not the worst of the bunch. He says some of his teammates have been struggling more than he has to deal with the stress.
And, perhaps strangely, he doesn’t want to forget the pain he’s felt this season.
In fact he plans to harvest the emotion and use it when he returns to NRL pre-season in November.
“I want to remember how much it hurt and take it into next year, that’s going to be a big driving factor for us coming into pre-season next year.”
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Unless he is redefining the role of fullbacks, I don't see him running the ball back, bursting through the line Hayne Slater Barba Ponga style or even chiming in as second 5/8 and throwing long passes Darius Boyd or Hayne style. He is safe under the high ball however does not offer much in the goalline defence category either.
