The Mariners played Matt Simon, Sash Petrovski and Dylan Macallister in advanced roles.

Boss McKinna said: "Last week was a bad day at the office, we forgot about it and we’ll move on, with the short turnaround and playing against the Jets, it was the best thing that could have happened to us.

It's a great result for us when you consider the players we had missing.

"The build up wasn't great but we put them on the back foot early. Defensively in the second half the boys were brilliant.

"Tonight was only our second clean sheet, it was a good, solid performance at home and this week will be a great week at training looking ahead to the Sydney game.

"We knew that they would change in the second half and we knew what our changes would be to combat that and the boys listened exactly how we wanted.

"Having three strikers on the park worked tonight, as it did against Adelaide, we did it against Wellington last week and it didn’t work, but three strikers is something that we’ll have a look at further and work on."

Matchwinner Dylan Macallister was part of a three-pronged attack against the Jets. He said: ""Lawrie took a gamble and it paid off.

"My job now is to build on this."