Blues coach Michael Voss knows his side had a lot to work on, but he’s proud they came away with the four points tonight.
“We were hanging on, and probably doing it for most of the second half to be fair,” Voss admitted.
“What I did ask the boys to do was fight, and when teams surge, your ability to hold matters.
“We had our backs against the wall, and all we could [do] was fight. You have to begin somewhere, and that’s where we begin.”
Voss said his men needed to play their new style for longer and that would come as the season went on.
“We will go back over it later, but clearly we didn’t execute for long enough. That’s what it comes down to,” Voss said.
“When you watch us, you can see a different style of play. You can see that. Our ability to keep doing that for a longer period is a question being asked of us right now.
“When we needed to shift modes, we did, and when we needed to hold, we did, and that’s something to celebrate.”
The Blues need to win more contested ball, and that is something they will keep working on over the coming weeks and months.
“We are losing way too much contested ball and when we did, it was coming out too quick. But we will celebrate this win, and we now have effectively two weeks before our next game,” Voss said.
“We will have three days off and then walk back in feeling good about ourselves.
“Tonight was a little bit about our club. We were targeted all week both inside [the club] and out, and I’m just pleased our supporters can walk away with a smile on their face, wear their jumper with pride and have their scarf around their neck.
“We want to keep that happening and, hopefully, there are more opportunities to do that.”