TBF, Wiz did say “attack has never been the issue, both Moylan and trindall do well in this area” in his post, so no he isn’t saying it was our attacking game.
he is more leading to taking some pressure off Nicho’s kicking game, as Moylan hasn’t been kicking all that much (in general).
Starting this comment before I even look at the stats as I am interested to see what they say
(name, average kicks per game, & I'm ignoring played with less than 5 games)
- SJ 19
- Cleary 17
- Hynes 15
- DCE 14
- Arey 14
- Chad 14
- Boyd 13
- Moses 13
- Hastings 12
- Burton 12
- SWalker 11
- Hunt 11
- Fogarty 11
- IKat 10
- Munster 9
- Ilias 9
- Keary 8
- Hughes 8
- Doueihi 8*
- Brooks 8
- Trindall 7*
- Wighton 7
- CWalker 7
- Wakeham 6
- Drinkwater 4
- Sullivan 4*
- Mahoney 3
- Moylan 3
- Grant 3
- Flanagan 3
- Amone 3
- DBrown 3
- Nikorima 3
- Walsh 3
I was legit worried Moylan wouldn't make the top 34 for a second there haha
*ones we know would be skewed by position changes
So he doesn't kick a lot by any means but as a teams second choice kicker it's not unusual. Plenty of teams have one very dominant kicker.
Other halves Moylan kicks more than Ponga, Dearden, Johns, Luai, Foran, Mam to name the most relevant
Now this is not an argument it is incorrect Hynes would benefit from a support who actively kicked more, but it does demonstrate it is a common set up which can be perfectly effective.
Moylan has kicked 5, 6, 5, 6, 4, 1, 2, 2, 5, 6, 0
Looks like he has been relatively happy to kick as needed since Nicho has settled back
**** this post is getting away from me... just keeps going
Trindall at half averages 12, he wouldn't if paired with Nicho though, something like 5 more likely. But then you could argue Moylan has shown he is quite happy to kick 4/5/6 times if needed. Trindall can kick further but if you aren't placing kick somewhere you can challenge for it or meet with defence the extra distance doesn't help massively - an extra 15m loses some effect when it gives their player an extra 10m to wind up and pick where he wants to run.
We are 8th for average kick meters but 3rd for average run meters so makes sense we wouldn't have to kick as far - we don't need to.
Throw in we are actually 12th for average long kicks per game (9.6) but 6th for average attacking kicks (9.6) the conclusion is Trindall would spend more time kicking balls into legs near the try line than hitting 40/20s
because I am sick of looking at kick stats and have chosen to interpret it that way