Think there is still considerable improvement to be had, but after the initial spell only one team looked like winning it and really we dominated the ruck, physicality, speed of the game, looked fitter, everything really.

Smith was very good, King really solid, thought Havard went really well tonight, KPP looked like a man who'd had a kick up the backside and responded, Miski came in did the job and picked up a brace, and French is just simply our biggest talent and has to stay at 1 and to get his hands on the ball as much as possible.

Only downside is Jai's injury. Looked like his Hammy so you'd assume that's him out of Friday (and beyond). Gonna have to find the solution(s) in the halves now.

It was he’s footwork at point of contact that Impressed me most last night, he’s sole athletes as well

Considering he was up against Leutele, KPP was outstanding in defence, nothing got through him. Did absolutely nothing with the ball though.

Havard was solid off the bench but would like to see that more often, rather than just against poor packs. Against tougher packs this season he's has not really been effective. Ellis carried much better but for some reason he was only on for about 10 mins either side of HT whereas Havard played 60 mins.

Byrne's defence and those big hits were great, but it just proved how that doesn't translate into points for us. We need field position and strong carries in transition, plus runners off the ball, rather than expending all energy in defence.

And I'm not Shorrocks' biggest fan but he was also great off the bench. Smithies I thought was poor in comparison. Shorrocks has to replace Singleton in the 17 for the rest of the year IMO.

Agree on Shorrocks. Offers alot more than Singleton imo

I agree that Shorrocks did well but not that Smithies didn’t. In those early stages, when the game was full throttle, I thought Smithies took it to them on both sides of the ball. Asiata is an experienced NRL player and him snd Smithies had a really good early battle. It’s all about balance for me. It felt like we found a nice balance on Thursday, with the likes of Byrne, Powell and Smithies starting and Havard, O’Neill and Shorrocks coming on as replacements. They opened us up a bit, once the early scraps had died down a little.

We have got to get more out of Cooper.