The Dragons defence, and their general intensity, will have alarm bells ringing all the way from Kogarah to Wollongong. Souths stormed to a 30-0 lead, and though the Dragons attack did make the score slightly respectable after the break, the inability to deal with the Bunnies’ metre-making and ball movement. It was a stroll, and with every camera cut to Anthony Griffin in the coaches’ box, his expression dropped and dropped. Granted, the Dragons are dreadful – and more on them later – but the way that Souths tore them apart early on will fill Jason Demetiou with confidence. Losing to a Souths team in good form isn’t a huge deal, and plenty of good sides would have struggled with the best of the attack that was thrown at the Dragons.
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