RUGBY UNION: THERE was more frustration for Coventry director of rugby Rowland Winter after he slammed his side for their level of performance after falling to a fifth defeat on the road against Rosslyn Park in National League One.
Despite struggling for cohesion Coventry took the lead in the third quarter at The Rock on Saturday and looked as if they might move up a gear to really threaten the home side.
But mistakes came creeping in to Coventry’s performance which allowed Rosslyn Park to steal a 33-15 win and Winter said the overall display was way short of what was required.
“The performance simply wasn’t good enough,” he said. “We didn’t perform anywhere close to the level we have shown so far this season – which is why this performance was so frustrating.
“We lacked accuracy. We missed kicks to touch, we had loads of handling errors, kicked restarts out on the full, missed countless line-outs, made a mess of our own breakdown, and even our scrum struggled.
“The majority of these errors were unforced.
“We lacked accuracy throughout our entire game, but somehow we managed to go in to half time within touching distance of Rosslyn Park. We then took the lead with our second try early in the second half and extended it with a penalty with 25 minutes to go.
“But the lead wasn’t deserved and despite getting into great parts of the pitch and creating chances to score, we didn’t have the accuracy or composure to get over the line.
“We will need to work hard this week to get the accuracy back into our game ahead of the visit of Old Albanians at the weekend.”
