From the preview on the game:
Griffin's men are storming home late in matches with 25 tries in the final 20 minutes of games this season – more than any other side in the Telstra Premiership. They're grinding out gritty wins on the back of strong defence and despite not playing their best attacking football, have conceded 71 line breaks this season – 37 fewer in comparison with the Tigers. Don't expect the Panthers to give away any seven tackle sets either with Cleary's kicking game on point to only concede 13 for the season – the second best behind Newcastle (9).
There is certainly a lot more resolve and heart defensively than we had earlier in the year, we scramble well now but we still miss tackles more than we should. 31 against the doggies. We also seem to not be as quick to get around the legs of players standing in tackles, this may be because earlier in the year we weren't wrapping the ball up well and conceded a lot of late offloads and now are focusing too much on that. Overall they have definitely improved defensively, I'm happy with that for sure.
I think we score so many late tries because it takes us 50 minutes to calm down and start playing patiently.