Mose Masoe : Tue Nov 05, 2013 9:08 am  

Anyone watch the Samoa game last night and how did Mose do

Re: Mose Masoe : Tue Nov 05, 2013 9:54 am  

Rommel wrote:

Anyone watch the Samoa game last night and how did Mose do

He did ok. He wasn't as good as he was in the kiwi game but played more mins and did more tackles. He wasn't running like he was against the kiwis.

Re: Mose Masoe : Tue Nov 05, 2013 11:07 am  

I hope that his display was a one off.
He did not impress me whatsoever.

Re: Mose Masoe : Tue Nov 05, 2013 11:13 am  

Made a few strong carries - but nowhere near the intensity of last week - to be fair Samoa as a team were cruising 20-0 up when he came on

Re: Mose Masoe : Tue Nov 05, 2013 11:29 am  

wirefox wrote:

I hope that his display was a one off.
He did not impress me whatsoever.

But he was impressive against the biggest and IMO the best pack in rugby league last week against the kiwis.

It was 22-0 when he came on and over as a contest when he arrived on the field.

Re: Mose Masoe : Tue Nov 05, 2013 12:30 pm  

He played an extended spell of 35 mins around half time. He also came on for the last 5-10 mins so the coach was probably trying to give him an extended run to improve his conditioning.

He came up with some big tackles (the Rovers fans seemed to enjoy them), the issue he had was that all the Papuans are very short. He had to bend quite far down to hit them legally.

He made some big metres in the tackle but I do feel he could have run harder to try and break through. However as someone else has already said he came on when the game was won, so not much motivation to bust a gut.

Sia was immense, he was everywhere in defence and did some great running.

Re: Mose Masoe : Tue Nov 05, 2013 2:38 pm  

Got to say that while I love to watch a huge bloke on the field (Paul Anderson, what a star), I was a bit concerned that Masoe was not well-conditioned-huge, so much as who-ate-all-the-pies-huge. I hope we can get his conditioning right next year, or he'll only be worth a ten-minute bench slot.

Re: Mose Masoe : Tue Nov 05, 2013 2:41 pm  

Well as he is getting an extended season with the WC, it should help towards keeping him trimmer.

Re: Mose Masoe : Tue Nov 05, 2013 3:10 pm  

Roy Haggerty wrote:

Got to say that while I love to watch a huge bloke on the field (Paul Anderson, what a star), I was a bit concerned that Masoe was not well-conditioned-huge, so much as who-ate-all-the-pies-huge. I hope we can get his conditioning right next year, or he'll only be worth a ten-minute bench slot.

10 minutes? Where do you get that from? Did you see the game last night?

Re: Mose Masoe : Tue Nov 05, 2013 3:47 pm  

Roy Haggerty wrote:

Got to say that while I love to watch a huge bloke on the field (Paul Anderson, what a star), I was a bit concerned that Masoe was not well-conditioned-huge, so much as who-ate-all-the-pies-huge. I hope we can get his conditioning right next year, or he'll only be worth a ten-minute bench slot.

Good post, went last night. He,s a big lad and my honest first thought was a taller Feka Eatapieaseena As you say,your not gonna get a lot of minutes out of him as he is. Deffo an impact player. Sia soliola was immense, looked fit and up for it, did the full 80...