Yes indeed you know what I talk about on a Monday, most Mondays, winning Mondays.

I talk the on-going celebration that is the Warriors of 2018.

10 wins and 4 losses and 2nd on the ladder.

This week though I am slightly sad to report that Friday night might have been the most frustrating and potentially worrying win of the season.

So firstly on a positive note, we won, and winning really is all that counts.

Further we do not beat the Cowboys very often at all at their place, so that’s another positive.

But, we won ugly. And we should, or at least you might have thought given what we are capable of these days, could have done a lot better than we did.

The first half is what we expected, a solid lead and every indication that a victory, if not a forgone conclusion, was virtually in the bag.

But after half time the Cowboys having got the rark up, started scoring and not letting go of the ball.

We once again fell apart defensively and leaked like a sieve.

To be fair by the end we got our act together and prevented it really turning into something disastrous

But if you want to use the old game of two halves analogy, the first half was current Warriors, the second half was last year's Warriors.

There was a genuine sense we were hanging on, not winning.

We were praying for the clock to tick down, not owning the game

The momentum was not ours or anywhere close to ours.

As a fan it wasn’t an enjoyable 40 minutes because we didn’t look up to much, and certainly not even close to what we've been up to most of the year.

However, two points is two points and winning away is still something comparatively new to a side that’s spend the last decade bewildering us all as to why they’ve made that trick so hard to pull off.

But the point is, we are deep enough into the season now where expectations are sky high.

There is no reason to think we not only will be in the playoffs, but there is no excuse for not being in the top four.

And that is where, really, all of this needs to play out successfully.

Because if we crash and burn early, then all of this joy so far this season will have been for nothing.

The purpose is to win and win it all, and for the first time in 20 plus years we look in good enough shape to genuinely do it.

With the exception of the inconsistencies, the brilliance of one half versus the ordinariness of the second, if we turn up and play the Dragons like that in the semis or the final we will lose.

So there is still work to do.

But the facts don’t lie, ten wins and four losses and second on the table.

This is our year.