Just like the Canberra match this one showed that Moses still has a long way to go before he can be considered a great half. He has all the skills needed, but he doesn’t know how to take control of a game when his team is being dominated.
Too many times he was getting the ball on the last and putting it high up in the air for his team to chase. He obviously has no feel for the game if he believes that’s the best option. What was needed on so many of those kicks was to try and get it out over the sideline. Even if he has to give up 10m on the kicking distance, just get it out over the sideline. It lets your team have a breather, slows down the play and doesn’t let your opposition have a free catch and run at a broken defensive line. The kick right before the Pearce try was the most egregious example. Last week he put in some beautiful long kicks over the sideline, but that was when his team was flogging the opposition. We needed some of those today. Is putting up a mid-field bomb hoping for the other team to drop it the best way to play when there is still 20mins of the game left and you are only down by 8 points?
We are sorely lacking by not having D. Brown out there. I know he doesn’t kick much, but at least he’s another option.
Please don’t take this as me saying this loss was all on Moses.
Pretty much the whole team needs to take responsibility for this game.
