We started this game on fire like last week. We lost the lead, we won it back, we lost it again. This side barely knows confidence. It barely knows what it's like to hold onto momentum. We didn't make it easy, two arsey tries that should have been stopped. But can you blame them? To have your teeth kicked in for so long, when the pendulum moves so slowly it must feel like it's at the speed of light. We made it hard for ourselves, absolutely, but that's not to discredit how well we played. Should it have been more? Absolutely.
There's a hell of a lot more to do; still far from a top 8 team but I didn't see a team that became disheartened when they fell behind. I didn't see a team put their head down; I saw them make mistakes less out of inexperience and more out of desperation to finally get a win. We didn't make it easy, nobody here would have played with a steady hand in their boots. But we won. Winning breeds confidence. Winning is going to motivate them. And for so many of the guys who suffered through the bulk of those losses last year, this win can only bring them closer; because unlike the Sims brothers, unlike others who left, they stuck it out.
Maybe I'm letting a single win get to my head but this feels good. When we were on, we were f**king on today just like last week. We carted the ball up the field incredibly well; our backs killed it...maybe Elliott not so much but eh. Lamb had a blinder today IMO. Just feels good and I hope this motivates them even more than they were before; Souths are beatable and if they don't allow mistakes to bother them, if they don't worry about the game falling away from them? Who knows what this season could hold for us.
