I don't know about the dropped off in the second half business, really the only difference for mine was that points were harder to come by. Manly were camped at the Cronulla end of the field for the first 25 minutes of the second half, the only times that they were at our end were when they scored both tries.
Truth is that when you are ahead by 38 the mindset changes, and frankly I don't really have too big a problem with that. All we did was go from attacking football in the first to dragons style possession football in the second. I think this is represented by the Lyon comment in the interview that the aim of the team in the second half was to not concede points. Always going to be a challenge given the way the refs even out games with penalties to the loosing team these days.
Last thing I am going to even think about is coming on here and bagging a team that puts 48 on in one night. And frankly in a game that I think many of us were secretly crossing fingers about and just hoping we would scrape by.
This is the first morning for a long while that I can wake up, see good headlines about the boys and head to work without receiving a bollocking from all the bitter old norths fans so I for one am more then happy.
Well done to all the boys, especially Choc who showed his ability in huge quantity last night. It looked to me like there was a bit of pride in the maroon and white again last night, a very pleasing sign.