Faithful One: Thought Lane, Cartwright and Asiata were really good, and they all played 80+ minutes which allowed a much better rotation for the props. Not sure why Aydin didn't play more, thought he was maybe injured but then he came back on in GP. Bourouh playing about 86 minutes was massive too. The attack looked so much better from where we've been, really good to see.
Just got to keep backing that up now, the benchmark has been set.
If there is one slight cloud from last night's performance, it's that it will be hard to maintain that intensity and work rate across a 27 game season. Like every team there will be games where we can't quite reach those levels and that is where our lack of individual quality may come into play.
We don't have any off the cuff players (ala French, Field or Dufty say) to swing a game our way if we aren't quite firing on all fronts.
I suspect it will be a case with us that we win as a team, we lose as a team, but everyone has dips, it's only natural in elite sport.
But if the players (and coaching staff) continue to show that level of passion and commitment most weeks then the crowd will be behind them, as was shown last night.