"The most pleasing thing is that we've been improving each week. We came into the pre-season with lots of new systems and new structures in defence and attack so it's slowly starting to come together which is good."

"We've had a real conscious effort on our defence - it's been our main focus - you don't win the comp if your defence is bad so it's something we've got to play a bit of catch up (on) and hopefully we can get their soon."