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Eels playmaker copped 'non-stop' death threats before Warriors clash

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Star Parramatta halfback Mitchell Moses says he was subject to repeated death threats in the lead-up to his side’s NRL clash with the Warriors.

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The 27-year-old said his family had copped threatening text messages and phone calls aimed at him “non-stop”, to the point where he received a police escort while entering and exiting CommBank Stadium for Friday night’s match.

Fans were said to be subjected to hand-held metal detector searches with security measures stepped up as a result.

Speaking on Saturday morning, Moses revealed he’d gone to the NRL for support given the seriousness of the situation.

“It was a bit tough, a bit tough for my family,” he told Triple M.

“I just had a couple of threats heading towards my family … about me and about the game … they put pretty much a threat on the game and myself.

“We cleared it up with the NRL and they looked after me and escorted me in to the game and looked after me … they handled the situation pretty well and I felt pretty safe.”

Moses said the individuals behind the threats had not been identified, with police continuing investigations.

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With his family on the receiving end of the threats, he admitted it had been tough to focus on football.

“It was pretty tough, the whole week was a bit like that and that uncertainty on what’s going to happen,” he said.

“You don’t know what’s gonna happen, it’s a pretty, pretty scary thing.

“It’s just worse because if it was attracted (sic) to me or was in contact with me, it would have been a bit easier to handle, but when people start to get in to your family and that side of it, it’s a bit harder on them.”

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But this is why the performance against NZ is hard to defend. You can forgive a conservative, back-to-basics team for failing to score tons of tries, because teams like that make up for it with reliability in the simple things. They can defend well, apply territorial pressure, win the set piece battles, and take their scoring chances with metronomic goal kicking, maul tries and pick-and-go goal line attacks.


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