![]() “Hook puts a game plan in place and we’ve got to stick to it, but it was us as players whose fault it was last week (against Cronulla). “The responsibility falls on the 17 players that take the jersey each and every week,” Lawrie said. One win doesn’t save a season and they now travel north to face the Titans for the second time in five weeks where they should start close to favourites with Gold Coast expected to be without the injured Kieran Foran and AJ Brimson. The prop forward led from the front with his second try of the season and laid the platform for skipper Ben Hunt and the outside backs to carve up in what Griffin said was their best performance of the season. The outside noise about their coach is something the players are used to, but Lawrie was adamant that the focus should have been on them and not Griffin after their back-to-back heavy defeats. We want to be top four, so it’s purely been a defensive focus for us.” “Top-four teams keep teams to under 16 points, and that’s what our goal is. We got 40 points on us the past two weeks, and if you get 40 points put on you, then you’re not going to win any game. “You want to win every week, especially after our last two performances. It was a convincing win and we were happy to keep them to 12 points. It was a good step in the right direction. “The second half against the Sharks was disgraceful. The blowtorch would have been turned up even more had they lost at home to the injury-ravaged Dolphins, but the Red V responded in style to ease the pressure on their coach and to give their fed-up fans something to be happy about. ![]() Picture NRL Photos Credit: The Daily Telegraph Camera Icon The Dragons fell apart in the second half against Cronulla that heaped more pressure on coach Anthony Griffin.
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