Tigersmurf
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How did Moses go?? Heard Sirro went well
NSW CUP GAME
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Moses surprised me. Closer to ready than I thought he would be. He defended reasonably, not going to stop big blokes in their tracks but was willing to put his body in front of them and hold them up until support got there.
He's got a good kicking game but he fluffed a few.
Backs up very well all over the park and he strikes me as one of those players that always bobs up where the ball is and where he needs to be to clean things up & cover holes, as well as to take the final pass.
Most impressive to me though was that in his first game with this mob of older blokes he was doing a lot of talking, organising and controlling. In particular he sprinted in at one stage when the game was right on the line to tell Koro in no uncertain terms to pull his head in. I think that actually stopped us giving the ball away through a penalty.
He did drift out of the game for a couple of periods but all in all impressive. Firsts maybe late this year if we have to but definitely will be ready next year. & he and Brooks could be very exciting together.
He's got a good kicking game but he fluffed a few.
Backs up very well all over the park and he strikes me as one of those players that always bobs up where the ball is and where he needs to be to clean things up & cover holes, as well as to take the final pass.
Most impressive to me though was that in his first game with this mob of older blokes he was doing a lot of talking, organising and controlling. In particular he sprinted in at one stage when the game was right on the line to tell Koro in no uncertain terms to pull his head in. I think that actually stopped us giving the ball away through a penalty.
He did drift out of the game for a couple of periods but all in all impressive. Firsts maybe late this year if we have to but definitely will be ready next year. & he and Brooks could be very exciting together.
clontarfkid
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Moses was quite impressive & handled the step up in calss with ease.Quite a talent.
He has excellent vision,very good hands & a significantly better kicking game than tonites no6 by miles…but he is very small,& that may jeopardise his potential NRL debut with Brooks.
Id recommend he spend an offseason at the same gym that Tedesco went to during his knee rehab a year orr two back where he put on around 8-10 kgs of muscle!Without that hes gonna be a speed hump for all those 110+kg opposition forwards targetting him in defence,so the sooner he bulks up a little the better.
He has excellent vision,very good hands & a significantly better kicking game than tonites no6 by miles…but he is very small,& that may jeopardise his potential NRL debut with Brooks.
Id recommend he spend an offseason at the same gym that Tedesco went to during his knee rehab a year orr two back where he put on around 8-10 kgs of muscle!Without that hes gonna be a speed hump for all those 110+kg opposition forwards targetting him in defence,so the sooner he bulks up a little the better.
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Match Report: NSW Cup Round 11
Dan Talintyre
Sat 24th May, 02:51PM
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Wests Tigers have made it back-to-back NSW Cup wins with a strong 26-22 victory over the Newcastle Knights at Campbelltown Sports Stadium.
NSW Cup debutants Mitchell Moses and Curtis Sironen — making his long-awaited return from injury — were both sensational in the win, with Marika Koroibete also continuing his brilliant form with another dominant game.
Moses was settling in well to his NSW Cup debut and soon had an impact when he nailed a 40/20 inside the opening 10 minutes.
However, Wests Tigers couldn’t turn his sharp kicking into points, and invited the Knights to attack — something which they soon did frequently on the hosts’ line.
Yet despite having seven repeat sets, Newcastle couldn’t break through.
A back-and-forth match would follow, with Wests Tigers finally breaking through after Jy Hitchcox hit Curtis Sironen close to the line.
Playing just his first game for the season after injuring his foot in the 2014 Auckland Nines, the powerful second-rower proved too hard to handle close to the line, and planted the ball down for a 4-0 lead after 23 minutes.
Moses missed the conversion, leaving the hosts with a 4-0 lead.
The lead was short lived, though, as a strong run from James Elias saw the second-rower link back up with Marcel Ikinofo before receiving the pass back and racing away to score in the left-hand corner.
Josh Mantellato converted to give the Knights a 6-4 lead after 32 minutes.
The visitors were in once more in the 38th minute through Inkinofo, although there was some doubt about whether the winger got the ball down inside the touchline, but the referee awarded the try. Mantellato missed the sideline conversion, to leave the score at 10-6 with just a minute to play in the half.
A moment of magic from Koroibete ensured that the visitors had points before the break, though. The Fijian flyer pushed through two defenders and ran 60m before linking up with Mitchell Moses close to the line, with the five-eighth scoring a try in his first game of NSW Cup football this year.
Dayne Craig converted on the siren to lock the scores at 10-all.
Wests Tigers were first to strike after half-time when Sironen laid on a perfect grubber for Setefano Taukafa to reach out and score from in the 43rd minute.
Craig missed the conversion, leaving the scoreline at 14-10.
Newcastle quickly hit back, though, through Michael Steele in the 49th minute, after the forward powered his way through two defenders close to the line.
A simple conversion extended the visitors’ lead back out to 16-14.
Some silky skills down the sideline from Koroibete saw the hosts back in the lead in the 50th minute, with the winger dancing his way past the fullback to score next to the left-hand upright. That gave Craig a simple conversion, and the hosts were back in front once more with a score of 20-16.
Another linebreak for Koroibete saw Wests Tigers on the attack, and Knights’ fullback Nathan Ross sent off for tripping in the play the ball.
That left the visitors undermanned for the remaining 23 minutes of the match, and the vision of Sironen and Moses — combined with the speed of Koroibete — would soon see them fall even further behind on the scoreboard.
After scooping up an error from the Knights, Moses threw a great cut-out pass to find Koroibete, who simply blew past his opposite number to race 80m and score his second length-of-the-field try of the afternoon.
Craig converted from in front for a 26-16 lead after 63 minutes.
Newcastle hit back with a somewhat dubious try again through Ikinofo in the left corner to reduce the margin to just four points for the final 10 minutes, but the result was seemingly always going the way of the hosts with an extra man advantage.
Wests Tigers hung on for a 26-22 win, and ensured they finished the week inside the top four of the 2014 VB NSW Cup ladder.
Final: Wests Tigers 26 def. Newcastle Knights 22
Dan Talintyre
Sat 24th May, 02:51PM
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Wests Tigers have made it back-to-back NSW Cup wins with a strong 26-22 victory over the Newcastle Knights at Campbelltown Sports Stadium.
NSW Cup debutants Mitchell Moses and Curtis Sironen — making his long-awaited return from injury — were both sensational in the win, with Marika Koroibete also continuing his brilliant form with another dominant game.
Moses was settling in well to his NSW Cup debut and soon had an impact when he nailed a 40/20 inside the opening 10 minutes.
However, Wests Tigers couldn’t turn his sharp kicking into points, and invited the Knights to attack — something which they soon did frequently on the hosts’ line.
Yet despite having seven repeat sets, Newcastle couldn’t break through.
A back-and-forth match would follow, with Wests Tigers finally breaking through after Jy Hitchcox hit Curtis Sironen close to the line.
Playing just his first game for the season after injuring his foot in the 2014 Auckland Nines, the powerful second-rower proved too hard to handle close to the line, and planted the ball down for a 4-0 lead after 23 minutes.
Moses missed the conversion, leaving the hosts with a 4-0 lead.
The lead was short lived, though, as a strong run from James Elias saw the second-rower link back up with Marcel Ikinofo before receiving the pass back and racing away to score in the left-hand corner.
Josh Mantellato converted to give the Knights a 6-4 lead after 32 minutes.
The visitors were in once more in the 38th minute through Inkinofo, although there was some doubt about whether the winger got the ball down inside the touchline, but the referee awarded the try. Mantellato missed the sideline conversion, to leave the score at 10-6 with just a minute to play in the half.
A moment of magic from Koroibete ensured that the visitors had points before the break, though. The Fijian flyer pushed through two defenders and ran 60m before linking up with Mitchell Moses close to the line, with the five-eighth scoring a try in his first game of NSW Cup football this year.
Dayne Craig converted on the siren to lock the scores at 10-all.
Wests Tigers were first to strike after half-time when Sironen laid on a perfect grubber for Setefano Taukafa to reach out and score from in the 43rd minute.
Craig missed the conversion, leaving the scoreline at 14-10.
Newcastle quickly hit back, though, through Michael Steele in the 49th minute, after the forward powered his way through two defenders close to the line.
A simple conversion extended the visitors’ lead back out to 16-14.
Some silky skills down the sideline from Koroibete saw the hosts back in the lead in the 50th minute, with the winger dancing his way past the fullback to score next to the left-hand upright. That gave Craig a simple conversion, and the hosts were back in front once more with a score of 20-16.
Another linebreak for Koroibete saw Wests Tigers on the attack, and Knights’ fullback Nathan Ross sent off for tripping in the play the ball.
That left the visitors undermanned for the remaining 23 minutes of the match, and the vision of Sironen and Moses — combined with the speed of Koroibete — would soon see them fall even further behind on the scoreboard.
After scooping up an error from the Knights, Moses threw a great cut-out pass to find Koroibete, who simply blew past his opposite number to race 80m and score his second length-of-the-field try of the afternoon.
Craig converted from in front for a 26-16 lead after 63 minutes.
Newcastle hit back with a somewhat dubious try again through Ikinofo in the left corner to reduce the margin to just four points for the final 10 minutes, but the result was seemingly always going the way of the hosts with an extra man advantage.
Wests Tigers hung on for a 26-22 win, and ensured they finished the week inside the top four of the 2014 VB NSW Cup ladder.
Final: Wests Tigers 26 def. Newcastle Knights 22
@Tigersmurf said:
Moses had great game considering it was his first in open company. Obviously being 19 years of age he can improve little things in his game but most impressed with his debut. Still hasn't let loose his running game but once he feels confident to do so he will be amazing asset to FG hopefully sometime this year.
PYMBLEPETE
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tiger_convert
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Moses handled the step up reasonably well , good with the footy in hand , defensivley tried hard needs a bit of weight behind him to be more effective.sirro was good , i would give him a couple of games in reggies to get his match fitnes up. koro good attack but work in progress defensively. Fine was solid , Taukafa is rocks or diamonds, defensively struggles big time with his reads, winger might be his position with a better defensive centre inside him to help. Corey Brown wore the 19 jersey, waste of space send him back to rugby gave no help to Fine defensively had a total of 5 carries for the game, time to send him on his way how does he get to train NRL????
balmain boy
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Geez it's like some of you had Koro sleep with your wives or something.
He had an excellent game, and provided more impact than any of our first grade backs have in the past month. Must have run for over 300m in that game FFS. Scored tries, set them up, prevented tries, defused all bombs. Yes he did run in way of his wing once in the first half but nothing came of it. Lawrence does that several times a game too.. At least Koro can turn a game. Lawrence cannot.
Our backs simply aren't fast enough to finish off opportunities that many other wingers in the NRL can.
Richards and Nofo are both fairly slow, but are powerful. Lulia and Lawrence have no speed at all. Simona does have speed, but rarely gets the ball in space to show it. Rowe, meh he rarely ever runs the ball forwards.
Try Nofo to centres and Koro on the wing.
He had an excellent game, and provided more impact than any of our first grade backs have in the past month. Must have run for over 300m in that game FFS. Scored tries, set them up, prevented tries, defused all bombs. Yes he did run in way of his wing once in the first half but nothing came of it. Lawrence does that several times a game too.. At least Koro can turn a game. Lawrence cannot.
Our backs simply aren't fast enough to finish off opportunities that many other wingers in the NRL can.
Richards and Nofo are both fairly slow, but are powerful. Lulia and Lawrence have no speed at all. Simona does have speed, but rarely gets the ball in space to show it. Rowe, meh he rarely ever runs the ball forwards.
Try Nofo to centres and Koro on the wing.
GoldXR50Leroy
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Caught the last 20 minutes of the game and didn't see the trip from the Knights player, at the end of the game the commentators felt that while it was a professional foul he should have been sent to the sin bin rather than being sent off, did he get suspended for the incident?.
What I couldn't believe was the try to the Panthers winger when he was into touch at least 5 metres out .
What I couldn't believe was the try to the Panthers winger when he was into touch at least 5 metres out .
