{"id":99744,"date":"2021-07-13T23:01:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T23:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=99744"},"modified":"2021-07-13T23:59:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T23:59:12","slug":"nsws-missed-trick-with-rookie-origin-no-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=99744","title":{"rendered":"NSW&#039;s missed trick with rookie Origin No.7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NSW may have missed a trick by not handing goal-kicking duties to Mitchell Moses for his State of Origin debut, legendary Blues coach Phil Gould says.<\/p>\n<p>In the absence of Nathan Cleary, the issue isn&#x27;t Brad Fittler&#x27;s preferred replacement option: Latrell Mitchell, himself a fine kicker.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Gould said that Eels halfback Moses may have benefited from goal-kicking as he usually does, potentially getting himself into the game mentally by slotting an early attempt and contributing to the scoreline.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell doesn&#x27;t kick for the Rabbitohs, due to Adam Reynolds&#x27; prowess, and has been in exceptional form this series for NSW, minus the kicking duties. Nonetheless, he will kick for the Blues in <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/live-scores\/new-south-wales-v-queensland-state-of-origin-2021\/921081\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Origin III on Wednesday night\">Origin III on Wednesday night<\/a> at Cbus Super Stadium, leaving Moses to focus on his general play at No.7.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I tend to think goal-kickers like to goal-kick. I think it&#x27;s a part of their confidence and a part of their game,&quot; Gould told Wide World of Sports on his <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/podcasts\/six-tackles-with-gus\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Six Tackles with Gus podcast\"><em>Six Tackles with Gus<\/em> podcast<\/a>, speaking with James Bracey.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"1cd1c0cc-cae4-4315-bba2-111db5548b95\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/1cd1c0cc-cae4-4315-bba2-111db5548b95\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;If early on, Mitchell Moses on debut and we score a try and he&#x27;s able to slot one between the posts, he rises, he feels like he&#x27;s into the game and he&#x27;s a part of the game.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If you&#x27;re a goal-kicker and we score a try and you walk back over halfway watching the other bloke take a kick, there&#x27;s an empty feeling there, I don&#x27;t care who you are.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But Latrell&#x27;s a great goal-kicker, he really is, and I&#x27;m sure he&#x27;ll do the job very, very well. They can&#x27;t both do it, that&#x27;s for sure.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But I would have thought on debut, it might help Mitchell Moses to feel a real part of the team and part of the game. But that&#x27;s just me playing mind games, I tend to do that.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Gould said that Fittler would likely have made the call as soon as NSW camp commenced, to avoid any uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Latrell&#x27;s a great goal-kicker, he won&#x27;t let NSW down. I just hope he gets plenty of kicks,&quot; Gould said.<\/p>\n<p>Gould said that if he were coach, he&#x27;d have liked to have seen the goal-kicking knock-back fire up Moses.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If I don&#x27;t see it (a hurt reaction), I&#x27;m really disappointed. I want to see it,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"d0bf3e11-f3ca-4433-b14a-7a1a46bf60c1\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/d0bf3e11-f3ca-4433-b14a-7a1a46bf60c1\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"1085\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Moses may get a chance to shine if Queensland makes far more of a contest from Origin III, after copping a 76-6 scoreline across the first two games. Gould said that the new halfback should be the first man in line for field goal duty; though Mitchell offered the option for a long-range shot.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Latrell Mitchell, we saw him kick a field goal down in Melbourne one night, he kicked it from the other side of town; it was a drop kick that went 50, 60 metres on the fly,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;So I think if they&#x27;re ever looking for a two-point field goal or they&#x27;re a long way out, Latrell Mitchell is obviously an option, but he&#x27;s out in the centres. He&#x27;s got to get himself in position for it and it sells it pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If I&#x27;m Mitchell Moses, I&#x27;m saying, &#x27;Hey, I&#x27;ll do that. You just get me to that point on the field, I&#x27;ll kick it, don&#x27;t worry about that&#x27;. We don&#x27;t want them to second-guess, that rubbish.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Moses will partner five-eighth Jack Wighton in his Origin debut. Wighton played as a bench utility in the opening two games and has replaced the injured Jarome Luai at No.6.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>NSW may have missed a trick by not handing goal-kicking duties to Mitchell Moses for his State of Origin debut, legendary Blues coach Phil Gould <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=99744\" title=\"NSW&#039;s missed trick with rookie Origin No.7\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99746,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99744\/revisions\/99746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}