Quick summary.
Shibasaki - Unlucky with the injury and I hope he recovers well, but glad he is out of the team.
SOS - Very unlucky with injury, was one of our best before he went off. If he was a bit quicker he would be a very good player. Made several half breaks but his lack of speed means he doesn't make a clean break and he is a bit weak in sliding defence. Hopefully in off seaosn he can do some sprinting work or something...
Coates - Great try and unlucky to not get a second. Seems another Corey Oates style tall gumbie that isn't good at cleaning up in the back. Centre would remove that issue a bit with less need to clean up grubbers. Was decent.
Farnsworth - Bit small but had really good leg drive and decent metres I thought. Another off season and a bit more muscle would do him well.
Carrigan - Hopefully this bloke sits out of the 17 for a bit once origin is over. He runs around like a headless chook half the time and was the one who rushed up and missed leading to one of the sharks tries. I really don't rate him based on what i've seen.
Glenn - Hurry up and resign him. He wouldn't be on gigantic money but he was huge tonight and marked up very well at centre. He is a player who you can't question his effort each week, and he is the ultimate professional. He is fit, strong and very popular amongst the players and should have been captaincy before Boyd.
Boyd - The big one... Great first half. Did more in the first half of this game than he has done all season. Got involved, made decent hitups, actually returned kicks and was solid without being outstanding. Second half when the going got tough, he wasn't really anywhere to be seen, it was players like TPJ, Lodge and Glenn that really stood up. Jury is still out on Boyd. He needs to back it up, and he needs to do it for 80, not 40.
Otherwise, very impressed with the win. I thought we had a couple of calls go against us, but I suppose the luck evened out with their terrible goal kicking. Great effort from a young squad. Trouble is now can we back it up and get another winning streak together.