Here are the premiership winning halfbacks of the last 15 years.
22 Cleary
21 Cleary
20 Hughes
19 Cronk
18 Cronk
17 Cronk
16 Townsend
15 Thurston
14 Reynolds
13 Pearce
12 Cronk
11 DCE
10 Hornby (w Soward)
09 Cronk*
Moses is the only available halfback that is even close to these blokes. There are simply not enough halfbacks in the game right now and the good ones cost a premium because history says you cannot win a premiership without one. Gus knows this, he brought Soward back from England to play for Penrith, he talked SJ into coming back to the Warriors and he would have been going hard for Moses.
An 18-year-old kid that you hadn't even heard of until yesterday is not going to turn us into contenders.