Mose Masoe : Fri Apr 24, 2015 9:20 pm  

I slagged him off good and proper last week.

Well what a difference a week make. Looks like he's had a right good rollicking coz he was excellent tonight. Hungry for the ball, plenty of carries and big metres every time.

One forced offload late on but that aside he was superb. More of the same needed!

Re: Mose Masoe : Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:15 pm  

The Yellow Giraffe wrote:

I slagged him off good and proper last week.

Well what a difference a week make. Looks like he's had a right good rollicking coz he was excellent tonight. Hungry for the ball, plenty of carries and big metres every time.

One forced offload late on but that aside he was superb. More of the same needed!

Well done Mose, let's have more of the same next week

Re: Mose Masoe : Fri Apr 24, 2015 11:04 pm  

Told you so. You give him more minutes and he's forced to do more work. When the team needed it he lifted his game tonight. He'll never be an 80 minute prop and we don't need him to be. Two solid 20 minutes spells a game from him would really lift us. It's not just the barnstorming runs that have an impact, the ones where he makes 7 metres but takes four men out of the line are the key ones.

Re: Mose Masoe : Fri Apr 24, 2015 11:12 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Told you so. You give him more minutes and he's forced to do more work. When the team needed it he lifted his game tonight. He'll never be an 80 minute prop and we don't need him to be. Two solid 20 minutes spells a game from him would really lift us. It's not just the barnstorming runs that have an impact, the ones where he makes 7 metres but takes four men out of the line are the key ones.

I know what he's capable of, mate. There's no doubting what he's capable of bringing to the table. We need to see consistency, not just disappearing for a few games.

I want him to succeed, massively.

Re: Mose Masoe : Sat Apr 25, 2015 7:58 am  

Fair play, he turned up to play this week. He's the ultimate enigma of a player.

I think starting him instead of playing him from the bench was a good move as it meant he had to lead from the front and give us a good opening spell. It's probably worth persisting with for a few weeks to see how he goes.

Re: Mose Masoe : Sat Apr 25, 2015 11:35 am  

Saddened! wrote:

Told you so. You give him more minutes and he's forced to do more work. When the team needed it he lifted his game tonight. He'll never be an 80 minute prop and we don't need him to be. Two solid 20 minutes spells a game from him would really lift us. It's not just the barnstorming runs that have an impact, the ones where he makes 7 metres but takes four men out of the line are the key ones.

This player does not exist any more in the modern game. Even James Graham has a rest in the NRL & even if the proposed reduction in interchanges does happen I think the props will still be rotated.

On the subject of Mose, when Burns & Walsh get a better understanding he will get better ball and become even more effective.

Re: Mose Masoe : Sat Apr 25, 2015 1:14 pm  

curly990 wrote:

On the subject of Mose, when Burns & Walsh get a better understanding he will get better ball and become even more effective.

Very much so, if you watched the previous games without our halves you will see that Roby has been very poor in picking out Mose with quality ball, the team needs to be smarter and focus on players strengths.

Re: Mose Masoe : Sat Apr 25, 2015 3:55 pm  

Curious that posters queue up to pan Mose when he has a poor game, but are totally missing when he has a good game. No doubt they will be back as soon as his standards dare to slip. It appears that they would prefer to have a pack of grafters who plod along for 80 minutes, rather than any players with anything a little different. We have a really strong set of forwards at present, we can afford to have a player like Mose to add something different, even if it is in small spells. They also forget the games when he has played long minutes, and really put in the graft. Sad really.

Re: Mose Masoe : Sat Apr 25, 2015 7:29 pm  

SomersetSaint wrote:

Curious that posters queue up to pan Mose when he has a poor game, but are totally missing when he has a good game. No doubt they will be back as soon as his standards dare to slip. It appears that they would prefer to have a pack of grafters who plod along for 80 minutes, rather than any players with anything a little different. We have a really strong set of forwards at present, we can afford to have a player like Mose to add something different, even if it is in small spells. They also forget the games when he has played long minutes, and really put in the graft. Sad really.

St Pete's on his jols. I pan him but praised him above. I'm just gonna reiterate that he has to do it consistently. And I disagree, our other forwards shouldn't have to have to carry Mose when he can't be a**ed putting a shift in. It's a team game, all 17 players have to put the work in, otherwise you end up burning out the likes of Walmsley & Amor.

Re: Mose Masoe : Sat Apr 25, 2015 10:23 pm  

Twentyman wrote:

St Pete's on his jols. I pan him but praised him above. I'm just gonna reiterate that he has to do it consistently. And I disagree, our other forwards shouldn't have to have to carry Mose when he can't be a**ed putting a shift in. It's a team game, all 17 players have to put the work in, otherwise you end up burning out the likes of Walmsley & Amor.

I do praise him when he plays well.

Yep I'm on my hols at moment in the states, I'm heading to Vegas next week for the boxing