Greg Growden believes that the Waratahs must keep up their attacking brand of rugby if they are to entice the crowds back to Sydney Football Stadium in The Sydney Morning Herald.
"The crowd did not come, but at least the tries and points did. So while the NSW Rugby Union bean-counters will have another restless night, knowing that a miserly 16,878 home crowd will affect the bank balance, at least the Waratahs players will be relieved their dwindling spectator base is no longer on their backs for supposedly being boring.
"And when a Waratah scores four tries for the first time in a Super rugby match, it is certainly time to overlook all the wide open spaces in the SFS terraces, and be thankful Drew Mitchell chose the right time to have a smart buzzcut hairdo to look really respectable for the cameras when he kept finding the line.
"Sure, the Waratahs kicked at times, prompting the occasional hoots and hollers, but they knew that if they held the ball for most of the time they had possession, they would reap the benefits. This was sheer Rugby 101, considering that before this match the Lions had leaked 18 tries in their first four games. This showed there was something rotten at the core of the opposition and it continued last night where it was soon evident the Lions had little idea in how to stop the Waratahs."
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