[rabinoz]

I was under the impression that the moon looked different depending on which hemisphere you are in ... also the phases change in opposite directions ...

Yes.  Opposite direction, but still the same FACE.  If the moon were as close to us as the Rowbotham model claims, observers in the southern hemisphere should be seeing the south-facing craters on the moon and not the north-facing ones.
Grade school analogy: if the moon is a face with its nose pointed at the equator, one hemisphere should be looking into his left ear while the other hemisphere looks into his right ear.

Well, we tried. Doesn't TFES have any explanation for this?

[Norr]

There is no flat answer.hyuk hyuk

Also if the Earth was flat and the moon was flying above it...then someone would certainly have seen the back of it by now..