New South Wales Blues halfback Mitch Moses has sent a scare through the Blues squad ahead of Game II in Melbourne with the new playmaker pulling out of kicking duty due to a sore foot.

The Parramatta pivot has just returned to the NRL with the Eels.

Blues winger Zac Lomax revealed that he was in the box seat to kick goals for the Blues in Melbourne.

“Whoever takes the goal-kicking role, just put them between the sticks,” Lomax said.

“They’ve got to go up in sixes.

“I practice whenever I can. I love kicking and have done it forever. Nothing would change, your ritual, your pre-game, it’s not like you’re doing a different run-up, you’ve just got more people watching.

“It’s not like you would do anything differently. You don’t want to change what works for you. Goal kicking is like a golf swing. Not everyone’s the same.

“The pressure is what comes with it but you use it as excitement.”