Wests Tigers playmaker Mitchell Moses has praised new skipper Aaron Woods after only one match as the new leader of the club. Wests held out the Warriors at Campbelltown Stadium despite a second half comeback from the Auckland club and Moses believes Woods was the difference.

“Woodsy came behind the line, they’d scored a couple of tries and got within one or two tries and Woodsy just really kept us calm behind that try-line,” Moses said.

“I think in past times we’ve really panicked in those situations where last year we would have lost that game I think but this year Woodsy kept that really calm head around everyone and no-one was really stressing, we knew if we held the ball we just needed to grind the game out and get some repeat sets which we did and we ground the game out.”

Wests Tigers next play Manly at Leichhardt Oval.