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| I think having Brent Webb at full back certainly helped all wingers with his cut out passes. Since he left other than 2015 our attack has never been as good.
Since he has gone our wide players have never had the chances that they had while he was there.
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| Quote Marty Grrrrrrrrrr!="Marty Grrrrrrrrrr!"I think having Brent Webb at full back certainly helped all wingers with his cut out passes. Since he left other than 2015 our attack has never been as good.
Since he has gone our wide players have never had the chances that they had while he was there.'"
Another good point away from the Joel Moon centre myth.
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| Quote Marty Grrrrrrrrrr!="Marty Grrrrrrrrrr!"I think having Brent Webb at full back certainly helped all wingers with his cut out passes. Since he left other than 2015 our attack has never been as good.
Since he has gone our wide players have never had the chances that they had while he was there.'"
Spot on. Webb used to link brilliantly and speedily especially on the left side and created so much space for Senior and whoever was the left winger
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| Quote BrisbaneRhino="BrisbaneRhino"So you're saying Ryan Hall suddenly became a shadow of his former self the year Moon arrived, and yet has excelled for England there until last year, and won MoM at Wembley in 2014? Or that a Leeds team including the same playmakers over the period to 2015 for some inexplicable reason decided they could get more tries elsewhere once Moon arrived?
I'd say the far simpler and more obvious answer is that Joel Moon is a strong running ball hog, who routinely runs lines which leave no space for his winger. He's very effective at it, but he's a shocking wingers centre. The odd thing to me is that when he does run straighter he has all the skills necessary to put his winger away unlike a lot of centres nowadays, and he'd be far more effective at both if he didn't run the same line 90% of the time. It also, to me at least, shows why he's a poor stand off.'"
I do not think "ball hog" is an accurate description for Moon. Over the last 5 years since he came into the side Moon is slightly ahead of Watkins for both try assists and offloads.
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| Gotcha - Hall had his best ever return of 33 the year before Moon arrived in 2012, not a fall. The fall came in 2013 when Moon arrived and he managed less than half what he'd done the previous year. Hall kept scoring tries in 2012 even after Webb got injured and Hardaker took over - he scored 16 with Hardaker at fullback (from just 17 games) and 17 with Webb there, so its also not true that it was all down to Webb either. The only major change in the backs from halfway through 2012 to 2013 was Moon. And Joe Vickery for comic relief on the other wing.
Like I say, I find it frustrating to watch Moon because when he does go to the line looking to set up play he has the speed, strength and pass to make lots of room for other players. Players either have vision or they don't. He doesn't, which is why he's playing SL and not NRL.
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| Just for completeness Hall's record is actually as follows:
2009 - 32 (31 games)
2010 - 31 (33 games)
2011 - 32 (35 games)
2012 - 33 (37 games)
2013 - Moon arrives - 16 (32 games).
2014 - 23 from 30 games
2015 - 22 from 31 games
In 2013 the ONLY change in the backs was Moon once BJB was fit. Hardaker had moved to full back halfway through 2012 and yet, miraculously the left winger continued to score even in Webb's absence and Ablett at centre. The main drop was at left centre, where Hardaker had been previously and scored a shedload before moving to fullback. Probably not surprising that the left centre from thereon scored less, given that it was mainly Ablett, who whilst an OK centre was never a running threat in the same way as Hardaker.
I've absolutely no idea why you'd try to make a case for Moon being a good winger's centre, but if you do at least get the numbers right.
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| Quote Juan Cornetto="Juan Cornetto"I do not think "ball hog" is an accurate description for Moon. Over the last 5 years since he came into the side Moon is slightly ahead of Watkins for both try assists and offloads.'"
You would expect that as moving the ball from right to left is by far the easiest motion for a right handed player.
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| Quote BrisbaneRhino="BrisbaneRhino"Just for completeness Hall's record is actually as follows:
2009 - 32 (31 games)
2010 - 31 (33 games)
2011 - 32 (35 games)
2012 - 33 (37 games)
2013 - Moon arrives - 16 (32 games).
2014 - 23 from 30 games
2015 - 22 from 31 games
In 2013 the ONLY change in the backs was Moon once BJB was fit. Hardaker had moved to full back halfway through 2012 and yet, miraculously the left winger continued to score even in Webb's absence and Ablett at centre. The main drop was at left centre, where Hardaker had been previously and scored a shedload before moving to fullback. Probably not surprising that the left centre from thereon scored less, given that it was mainly Ablett, who whilst an OK centre was never a running threat in the same way as Hardaker.
I've absolutely no idea why you'd try to make a case for Moon being a good winger's centre, but if you do at least get the numbers right.'"
As i said once Webb left the wingers tries go down but in truth still a good record. Lets not forget also Hall has bulked as his career has progressed and hes not got the pace he once had. Hes still a great winger but the Ryan Hall today is a different one to 2009.
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| Quote BrisbaneRhino="BrisbaneRhino"Just for completeness Hall's record is actually as follows:
2009 - 32 (31 games)
2010 - 31 (33 games)
2011 - 32 (35 games)
2012 - 33 (37 games)
2013 - Moon arrives - 16 (32 games).
2014 - 23 from 30 games
2015 - 22 from 31 games
In 2013 the ONLY change in the backs was Moon once BJB was fit. Hardaker had moved to full back halfway through 2012 and yet, miraculously the left winger continued to score even in Webb's absence and Ablett at centre. The main drop was at left centre, where Hardaker had been previously and scored a shedload before moving to fullback. Probably not surprising that the left centre from thereon scored less, given that it was mainly Ablett, who whilst an OK centre was never a running threat in the same way as Hardaker.
I've absolutely no idea why you'd try to make a case for Moon being a good winger's centre, but if you do at least get the numbers right.'"
Those figures are not a fair reflection. I am unsure where you got them from, but I took into account Super League games, and super league games only, which is the only reflective comparison.
His try's are actually
2008 8
2009 28
2010 23
2011 25
2012 26
2013 15
2014 16
2015 19
2016 4
2017 10
And on this, I will repeat myself one more time, and unsure why you keep ignoring this key point. At no time have I defended Joeal Moon as a wingers centre, completely the oppossite, as I have stated I don't believe they exist in the current game. What I have repeatedly said is that the left hand side did not suffer in anyway with Moon at centre. You personally, have made this all about Ryan Hall, one individual player, as I keep saying, yet you started out by saying the left hand side.
The tries scored in that left channell hasn't been effected by Moon, and people have given you various other reasons that should have effected it, but still you seem to think it is down to one man, yet nothing backs that up. You completely ignore the number of Joel Moon tries, and seem to be penalising him for scoring a try instead of passing to Ryan Hall.
Moon has the same number of try assists as Watkins for each of the previous 5 seaons, except for 2014 where he was out for an extended period. Do you think Watkins is also a bad centre?
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| I don’t have a problem with Moon at centre. As Gotcha says does it really matter if Hall is scoring fewer tries but Moon is scoring more?
I’d say Moon’s running game is better than most other centres which probably leads itself to more tries for him rather than setting Hall up. As mentioned the loss of Webb and a less structured type of play would also lend itself to Moon scoring more compared to Hall. I also think you have to take into account the fact that Hall is probably viewed as a big threat by opposition defences and wingers are probably coached to stay on Hall more than with other wingers, leaving more space on the inside for a centre like Moon to exploit.
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| Quote Sal Paradise="Sal Paradise"You would expect that as moving the ball from right to left is by far the easiest motion for a right handed player.'"
You would certainly not expect it if he was a "ball hog" which was the point I was contesting. Anyway a professional rugby player should have no difficulty passing either way, it is the lack of willingness to pass that is the issue.
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| Quote Juan Cornetto="Juan Cornetto"You would certainly not expect it if he was a "ball hog" which was the point I was contesting. Anyway a professional rugby player should have no difficulty passing either way, it is the lack of willingness to pass that is the issue.'"
Not as effectively, it is the same for every team - more tries will be scored down the left than the right.
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