Official Matt Moylan

[Wiz]

Trindall for sure makes those tackles for Wilton and catches those kicks for Ronaldo and holds the ball for Katoa and plays the ball for Talakai

Moylan didn’t kill it but he didn’t single handedly lose us the game. Wilton tryline defence at least as bad if not worse - he’s 50 games in he’s not still learning the position so much he doesn’t have to know how to tackle

no you’re right. Moylan was just sht, missed tackles that led to tries and added nothing of value to the team

Nothing to see here boys

 

[Wilson]

Trindall for sure makes those tackles for Wilton and catches those kicks for Ronaldo and holds the ball for Katoa and plays the ball for Talakai

Moylan didn’t kill it but he didn’t single handedly lose us the game. Wilton tryline defence at least as bad if not worse - he’s 50 games in he’s not still learning the position so much he doesn’t have to know how to tackle

The effort on Curran - what’s your excuse for Moylan’s pathetic effort?

 

[Deleted member 3365]

Trindall for sure makes those tackles for Wilton and catches those kicks for Ronaldo and holds the ball for Katoa and plays the ball for Talakai

Moylan didn’t kill it but he didn’t single handedly lose us the game. Wilton tryline defence at least as bad if not worse - he’s 50 games in he’s not still learning the position so much he doesn’t have to know how to tackle

No one is saying that Trindall would've of saved the day.

Trindall has shown he has been improving and Moylan has shown he's either stagnant or on the decline.

 

[Thresher]

Tigers are looking for an experienced half

 

[bort]

The effort on Curran - what’s your excuse for Moylan’s pathetic effort?

It was ****, what’s you’re obsession with the word excuse

Give us your best excuses why he stays in the team gentlemen

I don’t need excuses for him to be in the team I don’t pick.

I’m not saying he was good I don’t need excuses for him to make bad tackles.

Wilton was further away than he should have been to help (it’s not an excuse have a look it’s just a fact) and Moylan gave the tackle **** all.

If you wanna pick that one out do we reckon other teams drop their halves Nikora (and sometimes Wilton) run through each week?

The tryline defence between the two of them is awful.

I can say more than one player is bad without it meaning I think Moylan was good.

Our goal line D has been too easily beaten all year. Needs to be fixed. Also need to fix the errors and dumb **** that walk teams up to our tryline all the time.

 

[Flanno]

This is a real problem. He is getting targetted every week and we are leaking points on that side. He has a rookie second rower next to him thats still learning the job.

Teams aren’t going to stop smashing that left side close to the line. An adjustment is needed.

I’m a massive Trindall supporter, I’ve always genuinely felt he’s Nico’s long term halves partner. But I don’t know much of an upgrade that is defensively.

I don’t know what the answer is but our highly paid coach better know or we are in deep ****.

Didn’t seem too concerned in the presser from what I saw, only caught the second half of it. Hoping that’s just his persona to the media but surely has to be concerned with our defence

 

[sharks2010]

It was ****, what’s you’re obsession with the word excuse

I don’t need excuses for him to be in the team I don’t pick.

I’m not saying he was good I don’t need excuses for him to make bad tackles.

Wilton was further away than he should have been to help (it’s not an excuse have a look it’s just a fact) and Moylan gave the tackle **** all.

If you wanna pick that one out do we reckon other teams drop their halves Nikora (and sometimes Wilton) run through each week?

The tryline defence between the two of them is awful.

I can say more than one player is bad without it meaning I think Moylan was good.

Our goal line D has been too easily beaten all year. Needs to be fixed. Also need to fix the errors and dumb **** that walk teams up to our tryline all the time.

How dare you speak common sense bortman

 

[Wilson]

It was ****, what’s you’re obsession with the word excuse

I don’t need excuses for him to be in the team I don’t pick.

I’m not saying he was good I don’t need excuses for him to make bad tackles.

Wilton was further away than he should have been to help (it’s not an excuse have a look it’s just a fact) and Moylan gave the tackle **** all.

If you wanna pick that one out do we reckon other teams drop their halves Nikora (and sometimes Wilton) run through each week?

The tryline defence between the two of them is awful.

I can say more than one player is bad without it meaning I think Moylan was good.

Our goal line D has been too easily beaten all year. Needs to be fixed. Also need to fix the errors and dumb **** that walk teams up to our tryline all the time.

Do other teams have a superior half in reserves to replace their doormats with?

You may not pick the team but you sure do sprout a lot of rubbish of why he should remain in it.

I’ll ask another question then, what does Moylan do these days that Trindall cannot do / doesn’t already do better?

 

[Wiz]

Didn’t seem too concerned in the presser from what I saw, only caught the second half of it. Hoping that’s just his persona to the media but surely has to be concerned with our defence

He can play cool all he wants

He keeps the poor coaching up his persona will mean fk all

 

[Milkshark]

He can play cool all he wants

He keeps the poor coaching up his persona will mean fk all

Bring back flano

 

[bort]

How dare you speak common sense bortman

It’s Chad Townsend all over again - if you aren’t picking him out as the only issue in the team you’re a cHaD LoVeR

Do other teams have a superior half in reserves to replace their doormats with?

You may not pick the team but you sure do sprout a lot of rubbish of why he should remain in it.

I’ll ask another question then, what does Moylan do these days that Trindall cannot do / doesn’t already do better?

I don’t know that I’ve said I think he should remain in the team. I thought the coach would keep picking him.
My nonsense is what? Other people are also making mistakes?
You need to watch the games more if you don’t think that’s true.

As for your other question Moylans attack decision making is very good - you might notice we are one of the top scorer in the league at the moment. Believe it or not I think he is probably better than Trindall at this. Given how much we play off Hynes or Kennedy though I do think that Trindall could probably be close enough.

I also think the coach sees way more of both and if he consistently picks one over the other he’s better placed than I or anyone on a forum to choose and we just have to accept that is either correct or we have a bad coach.

I’ve been against Moylans last two re-signings. I’m not particularly happy we are playing him.
Doesn’t mean I can’t see Wilton miss a tackle or half a dozen errors putting us under pressure.

Bye is actually a good chance to half over 5/8 to trindall if Fitz is open to it.
Hope he works on some other stuff too though.

 

[Gumby]

We should pay the tigers to take Moylan.

 

[Flanno]

He can play cool all he wants

He keeps the poor coaching up his persona will mean fk all

Two weeks to fix this ****. Let’s see what he does

 

[Gumby]

He can play cool all he wants

He keeps the poor coaching up his persona will mean fk all

I said this before but Extending fitz this early in his career and for so long never say well with me.

We are so far backwards from last year it’s not funny.

 

[Gumby]

Two weeks to fix this ****. Let’s see what he does

First thing he does is cancel anyone’s leave who has planned to go away for the bye.

And make these blokes train the ****ing house down.

 

[JimBob]

It wasn’t just Moylan, our whole left edge let us down tonight.

Wilton and Moylan were off sync with their defence and Talakai and Ronaldo gave away some poor errors at critical times.

Trindall may have made more of an impact on those tackles, maybe not. But playing Tricky doesn’t stop the rest of errors on that edge.

 

[jocktheshark]

We shouldn't have been continually been put in that position , until we stop inviting teams to keep attacking our line after multiple errors then nothing changes .

 

[Gards]

Moylan is not the reason that comes to mind on why that game played out the way it did - if anything Hynes fell away somewhat in the second half and Moylan needed to take on a bit more. Surprised (although kinda also shouldn't be surprised) he is copping so much flack after that game.

Look I bag out Mozza at times as well but sometimes I think some fans get the tunnel vision and already have their posts drafted ready to bag him out post game regardless of if he was actually decent or not and I get the frustration as his D was crap tonight but to act like he did nothing in attack is wrong.

People want him to kick more, well he kicked more. People want repeat sets, he got us a couple of those.

Moylan is still good with the ball, the problem is that defense of his that used to be pretty handy has regressed and tonight some of his tackle efforts looked like a bloke injured or dogging it. That just piles onto what has already been an underwhelming defensive display from Moylan and co. in the opening rounds

Not enough to see him dropped though

I half seriously/half jokingly suggested defending him on the wing (like Dragons did with Soward) and while that didn't gain much traction he isn't going to be dropped so what is the solution? Is he suddenly going to be able to tackle again next week while working it all out with Tieg and Talakai? Will the coach try something different or just keep reinforcing what he is trying with them?

There has been some improvement in that defensive combination lately so perhaps we need to show some more patience but it's hard cause it is currently hurtingus in games and frankly I think all 3 of Wilton, Talakai and Moylan have been missing their assignments and not been up to scratch individually with the defensive reads and tackling.

I.e. it's not all down to combos and communication

Up field defesively sure not bad, Tieg particualr been strong further up field in defense and Talakai even Moylan having their moments but on the try line we just arn't getting good contact on the ball carrier.

 

[Milkshark]

I definitely have bagged Moyza over the years and probably got side tracked with him at times. It’s not always him and he does play well sometimes.

However, there is consistency with Moyza in defence. And the players around him struggle, I can only say that maybe this is because there is doubt in there minds defending next to him.

I think Fitz has to make a decision before the season gets away from him.

 

[Wiz]

Bring back flano

Would be the best thing we could do

Moylan is not the reason that comes to mind on why that game played out the way it did - if anything Hynes fell away somewhat in the second half and Moylan needed to take on a bit more. Surprised (although kinda also shouldn't be surprised) he is copping so much flack after that game.

Look I bag out Mozza at times as well but sometimes I think some fans get the tunnel vision and already have their posts drafted ready to bag him out post game regardless of if he was actually decent or not and I get the frustration as his D was crap tonight but to act like he did nothing in attack is wrong.

People want him to kick more, well he kicked more. People want repeat sets, he got us a couple of those.

Moylan is still good with the ball, the problem is that defense of his that used to be pretty handy has regressed and tonight some of his tackle efforts looked like a bloke injured or dogging it. That just piles onto what has already been an underwhelming defensive display from Moylan and co. in the opening rounds

Not enough to see him dropped though

I half seriously/half jokingly suggested defending him on the wing (like Dragons did with Soward) and while that didn't gain much traction he isn't going to be dropped so what is the solution? Is he suddenly going to be able to tackle again next week while working it all out with Tieg and Talakai? Will the coach try something different or just keep reinforcing what he is trying with them?

There has been some improvement in that defensive combination lately so perhaps we need to show some more patience but it's hard cause it is currently hurtingus in games and frankly I think all 3 of Wilton, Talakai and Moylan have been missing their assignments and not been up to scratch individually with the defensive reads and tackling.

I.e. it's not all down to combos and communication

Up field defesively sure not bad, Tieg particualr been strong further up field in defense and Talakai even Moylan having their moments but on the try line we just arn't getting good contact on the ball carrier.

it happened a lot last year.. Hynes does everything then runs himself ragged taking somewhat of a break which leaves Moylan to do more but because Moylans ceiling is where it is we regress.

Currently there is no magic happening around Moylan and we are paying for it