I agree, Cronulla were soft that night and easy to contain. The lateral ball movement worked well and hope it continues.
I do still worry that Myles and starling are out 2 best starting front rowers. We are still a little soft up front and lack that mongrel and go forward. And teams with good quick sweeping back lines do worry our D out wide, especially Matai and Jorge.
But their were plenty of positives. Parcell playing 80 mins and killing it. Marty another 150m performance and bent the line. Also played for 80. Jake rock solid in defence (leads the NRL in tackling) Walker looked dangerous and promising. DCE was heavily involved and getting back to best. Having Tom on wing, that side of defence looks much better and with toms speed can cover very well, also finish off tries plus kick returned he ran for 200m. Plus the addition of Tom Symonds thought he did a mountain of defence and when Mateo came on added the X factor with the ball.
Make no mistake, plenty of improvement still needed but we played heaps better and just have to keep building on that each week.