I have been keeping a close eye on the performance of Moses lately, one concerning stat I have come across is that over the last 3 years he is only producing a try assist every second game on average.
I'm a little bit concerned by this stat to be completely honest, Jonah Pezet has only played around half the games Moses has this season and it equal on Try Assists, Brian Kelly who is a winger is also level with Moses on even though he has missed two more games than Moses.
For a bit of a comparison, Dean Hawkins last season in his 12 appearances was up near an assist a game.
Leaders in this area over the sample years are:
2024 - Ben Hunt (Dragons) = 1.4 Try Assists per game
2025 - Sam Walker (Roosters) = 1.8 Try Assists per game
2026 - Tom Duffy (Broncos) = 1.5 Try Assists per game (only played 2)
- Jerome Luai (Tigers) = 1.4 Try Assists per game
This leads me to ask, what are the key responsibilities of Halfback?
For me I want to see good Game Management, Creativity and Match Awareness in a Halfback.
Moses has the best long kicking game in the competition, there is no doubting that but I have been noticing lately that his short kicking game lacks any sort of real creativity.
Defensively Moses is one of the better Halfbacks in the competition, when he came from the Tigers he was an ordinary defender but he has really improved this area of his game.
Moses is stated as being on big money, are we really getting true value out of what Moses is giving us ?
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He's always been rubbish at getting repeat sets through his short kicking game and it annoys the hell out of me.
I remember him being really creative in his youth, but now he's a boring robot.
Moses is the best player in our squad with daylight second. He's getting to that stage in his career where he needs to start protecting his body if he wants to play on for more years still - he's had quite a few seasons now where injuries have kept him out for long stretches of time, he doesn't heal like he used to. Age catches up to all of us.
Look at any of the successful ageing spine players and most of them start to take a backseat role and run the team. With the underperforming squad we have now Moses is trying to do way too much, he's getting involved too much to try and make something happen because he's surrounded by others who can't.
For us to get the best value out of Moses in these coming years we have to surround him with adequate talent who can take his lead and finish the good work he creates. The same way that Reynolds, Hunt, Cam Smith etc are/were in the backend of their careers. More injuries, so they limit contact and choose their involvement carefully.
We can't be relying on Moses to be our savior anymore, we need to let him be the General and give him some great troops to work with. If we use him the right way, we are absolutely getting value out of him.
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