Yoohooo!! Great to get the result, great to get the win!! That was such an important game that we really needed to win and we did that so I'm happy!!
Not entirely happy with the performance obviously, should have done a lot better and really put them away with 12 men but we failed to do so. I think if Manly had 13 on the field we could have been in trouble. Still gave them far too many leg ups and our defence for the most part was very poor, diabolical at stages in fact. That kept them in the game.
We kept them in the game for a lot of it and that's what has annoyed me the most. Yes, Manly were brave, tough, gritty, whatever you want to call it but we gave them constant leg ups through errors, poor discipline and some truly average defence. How were we short down that right side so often?? Manly are a great side but conceding that many points against 12 doesn't make for great reading, we really should have done better.
Attack was a mixed bag. We made meters easily, our forwards were fantastic! However, we still failed to execute a lot of the time and the timing just looked off sometimes. The reason I say it was a mixed bag was because we obviously did score some really nice tries, still scored 40 and looked great when we got it right.
The big positive out of tonight was the 80% completions. Still room for improvement but better.
The main thing is that we got the win. That's the most important thing! But still waiting for this team to fully click.
