Good clinical win by Saints.
Nothing exciting for the most part, but when you are at a poker table playing with 7 others, and 2 drop out, you don't reveal whats in your deck to the remaining 5 do you?, particularly when everyone else is still adding chips to the middle of the table.
I think they have some improvement left in them, they were probably capable of going absolutely ape sh*t today, crazy arse kicks, sweeping backline movements etc and racking up a few more tries.
The flipside of that is Manly probably would have scored a couple.
They did what they needed to do against an understrength opposition and expended as little energy as possible to do it and got some tackling practice in.
Its not a result that would have people making comments like "premiers in waiting" because the opposition wasn't exactly top notch.
They just need to avoid what happened to Penrith, play a few teams who are struggling and get a false sense of security then come up against a team that is well versed and not be ready for it from the onset.
I think Bennett and the team know that 15 errors is way too many for a team that 90% of the time records errors in single figures and that 27 of 39 completions is also not good enough, in that regard its probably the "errors they had to have".
In any case they have given themselves the best chance they can at this point by skipping a game and getting a weeks rest, and then maybe a few more cards in the hand get revealed.
