My thoughts, it was a scrappy game, due to a number of contributing factors such as the heat, playing a desperate side trying to save their season, and some dodgy refereeing around the ruck. It could have been a very easy game to lose for the boys, so well done to get over them.
I thought they went away from something that worked really well against the dragons last week and I thought could have worked equally well against a big cowboys pack, that is, turning it back inside and changing the angle of attack through the forwards. In the first half they just kept trying to go wide to either Taylor or Thaiday. They tried it a little in the second half with some results.
I am willing to give Izzy the benefit of the doubt as well, though it appeared for some reason last night that the attack was quite disjointed in comparison to the previous two weeks. I really like the way that McCullough is developing, he is going to be a gun hooker IMO. I thought that Corey Parker had another good game with a lot of effort. He looked really distressed at the end of the game, does anyone know whether he was just stuffed or whether he picked up an injury.
Wallace was very good in defence and generally our scramble defence and on-line defence were excellent. The cowboys certainly shut down Taylor last night. All in all very happy with the win and I am hoping that other results fall our way over the weekend.
