Poupou Escobar
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Well, not ALL juniors were neglected.....
These players took us a long way. The only team to beat us in the finals 2021-22 was Penrith. And they beat everybody.
The juniors are doing fine. The best players from last year’s SG Ball are playing well in reserve grade.
Gutherson, Paulo and RCG re-signed before the 2022 season started, Matterson re-signed mid season. How good would we have gone if we'd told them 2022 would be their final year with the club? Right after losing by two points to the eventual premiers?
That's fine, we'll keep the ones we can and keep bringing more through.
So I rewatched the 2nd half making a point to record Moses’ involvement as he seems to be copping it. Whilst I thought he didn’t set the world on fire, I didn’t think he was too bad.
My overall observation was that we predominantly went left and gave Drown more good ball (rightly so as he played well in the second half).
For what it’s worth, here is the record I made of our sets in attack:
1st: Moses involved in 4th tackle sweep. Drown ends up scoring in this set
2nd: Moses passes in a 2nd tackle shift. We receive a penalty.
3rd: Passes for a 3rd tackle shift. Also shifts out to Penisini in space off a Paulo offload.
4th: Involved in a 4th tackle shift. Last tackle attacking kick average as it was not deep enough.
5th: Helped out at dummy half for two plays. Good long kick on last is caught on their 10m line.
6th: Lussick on. Involved in 2nd tackle shift. Shifted on the last and then ends up with the ball again. Very good grubber should have pinned Roosters in goal but shithouse chase meant they made metres.
7th: Dummy half on the 2nd. Good long kick caught on 10m line.
8th: Doesn’t touch the ball. We were dominated rucking it out and didn’t make the 30m line. Excellent long kick gets us out of trouble and is caught on 20m line.
9th: Involved in 2nd tackle shift. 4th tackle short ball to Carty, then receives offload, runs the ball and then passes long which finds ground that we end up knocking on. **First poor contribution from Moses**
10th: Not involved as we were trucking it out from our own 10m. We drop the ball on the 4th.
11th: Rucking it out again but we receive a penalty.
12th: Ineffective inside ball to Carty on the 4th. Decides to run it on the last and throws a hospital ball to Drown who is caught on the last. **second poor contribution from Moses**
13th: Involved in 2nd tackle shift. Also involved in 4th tackle shift that was ineffective. Very good attacking kick on the last that should have resulted in a drop out but Asi gets a touch on it for a knock on.
14th: We drop the ball on the 2nd.
15th: Involved in a 3rd tackle shift which results in good metres. Starts 4th tackle shift which also results in good metres. Throws a ball on the last creating space for Penisini which almost results in Blaize scoring.
So there you have it. Two poor options but not exactly terrible across 40minutes.
In Moses’ biography there will be a chapter dedicated to BA’s sacking named ‘My left foot.’
For most of it he was f**king awesome.
