Cronulla 30 Gold Coast 14  

AFTER recording their biggest win of the season over the previously top-of-the table Gold Coast Titans, Sharks players will today be shown a replay of their second-half performance to give them more confidence in their attacking ability.

With his side having scored the third-lowest amount of points this season, ahead of only Canberra and South Sydney heading into last weekend's matches, Cronulla coach Ricky Stuart revealed that up to 80 per cent of their recent field training sessions had been focused on attack.

Until the final 30 minutes of their clash at Toyota Stadium yesterday, Stuart and his players had little reward for their efforts. But after overhauling the Titans' lead, the previously dour Sharks suddenly turned into entertainers as they raced away to a comfortable win.

"Probably the first thing I do tomorrow is show these boys some of the attack they had in the second half and hopefully it creates a little bit of self-belief and self-confidence," Stuart said.

"We just spoke about that with a couple of the boys in the changing room then and it can hopefully give them some confidence towards doing it again.

"We probably put 80 per cent of our work into attack at the moment because we need it - and not just big, long plays but having some variety off the back-end of our sets, having some positive finishes to how we finish the set of six. It will work if we stick at it and be as persistent as we possibly can."

However, there was nothing in the opening 40 minutes that gave a hint of what lay ahead and Stuart admitted he felt frustrated at half-time and addressed the players on their shortcomings.

While Stuart said he had been "pretty cool and calm and relaxed" at the interval, skipper Paul Gallen suggested that was not really the case - although he maintained he was always confident of the outcome, despite the Titans leading 10-8 and scoring less than 90 seconds into the second term.

After watching his side overcome the setback of Danny Nutley knocking on and Brett Delaney scoring, before they posted four unanswered tries, Stuart praised his players at full-time for their composure.

"For that to happen after wanting to go out and change our whole mentality in the second half … and bounce back showed some good mental toughness," he said. "We've spoken about that all week and there was some glimpses of attack there that impressed me.

"I was just dumbfounded at half-time in regards to how we were playing and just asked a few questions about what was going through our mind, especially in attack - because it's just not the way we prepare or train to play.

"I think every coach wants his training session transferred to the training field or a percentage of it but we had none in that first half. But the second half gives you a little bit of hope that we are doing something right at training."

When Delaney scored, Gallen said he had simply implored his teammates to "start again". Then after Luke Covell crossed for the first of his two tries in the 46th minute, the Sharks hit the lead when centre Ben Pomeroy scored in the 51st minute after Brett Kimmorley had regathered his own grubber.

"We have to play every week like we did in that second half or we're not going to be in games because we don't have someone who can score a try from nothing so we all have to work together and work hard," Gallen said.