Okay my thoughts for what they are worth:-
1. A very good win with some positive signs, but there are still significant areas to work on and the Cowboys were really bad.
2. It is good to see that each week the team has improved their performance. Hopefully that continues against the Warriors.
3. There were positive signs everywhere. The halves were controlling play better and doing a bit of ball play, I hope that Milford's ball to put Glenn away is a sign of things to come. Forwards made good ground and it was refreshing to see a lot more offloads leading to second phase play rather than the guy hitting it up getting tackled and dying with the ball. Kahu, some great touches, his timing seems to be really good, and boy can he hit (plus he really puts his body on the line back there). I am really warming to this kid. Maranta, another improved performance, the two tries will do his confidence the world of good, but where is this much vaunted speed? Disappointed on him giving up in the chase. Oates, another good solid performance and I loved him putting in on the chase, he does have some real speed. Fantastic hit on Cooper. Kicking game was much improved but there is still a lot of room for improvement there.
4. Something is seriously going wrong at the Cowboys. They good very well be 0-6 with the three games they have coming up. With their roster they should have made at least two grand finals in the last 5-6 years, they have seriously underperformed and I wonder if they have now missed their premiership window?
5. Another week, another game against a former Bronco who was moved on. After watching that game closely last night I cannot disagree with the decision to move Hannant on and I thought much the same about Barba last week. So the decisions re Hannant, Barba and Kennedy all seem to have been spot on from my perspective.
6. The time has come for Reed to get a run in ISC and give Copely a fair crack at centre and see if he can cement the position (if is fit next week).
7. I thought that three of their tries last night were very questionable? The first one (from memory) was a fair try but resulted from possession from the knock on call against Kahu when he clearly had the ball knocked out of his hands. It should have been a penalty to us. Coote knocked the ball on prior to getting rid of it, should have been a no try call. O'Neill knocked on in the course of scoring.
8. I was a little disappointed we dropped off in the second half and did not go on with it and try and put 50 or 60 on them.
