Harsh on Cunningham. If he was lucky it was because he ran hard all day. I don't know whether you were at the game, but you would have seen on screen his three big runs down the wing (none of which he finished off as well as we might have hoped); what you wouldn't have seen was that he spread wide, quickly, all day to make that link option, which was not always taken up (partly because Zac Jones had set himself up well to run through the corridor from half-back). I don't want to buy into the 'Cunningham is soft' argument (looking at you Nico), but I don't mind his game and his contribution of perceived pressure in the attacking pockets. Doesn't always nail the tackle, but corrals and closes down options.
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