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NO EXCUSES FOR POOR START TO SECOND HALF
By Wayne Cousins
12/03/2012 5:00:46 PM
Wests Tigers Head Coach Tim Sheens offered no excuses for the poor start to the second half in the loss to Manly at Bluetongue Stadium last Friday night.
A dominant first half performance saw Wests Tigers lead 8-2 at half-time at Bluetongue Stadium before Manly capitalised on a slow start, some unforced errors and the loss of second-rower Gareth Ellis to a cork injury to take victory.
“It started poorly with us with losing Gareth and we had to re-organise ourselves. We had a couple of mistakes and then all of a sudden we were in quick sand just trying to get ourselves going again,’’ Sheens said.
“We eventually did but we had to chase the score which was too hard. There were good signs from us for most of the game.
“It was a very good first half of footy from both teams and it was a quality game of footy. Our first 15 to 20 minutes of the second half were terrible and we self inflicted a bit through some drop ball, missed tackles and we didn’t complete.
“We kicked off and then had to go back to back. That really hurt us. I thought we steadied and came back into the game okay but the game was over by then.”
Wests Tigers Captain Robbie Farah said the team spoke at half-time about getting their completions right.
“We came up with a couple of drop balls and some soft tries back to back which probably lost us the game in that 15 minutes,’’ Farah said.
“Losing Gareth was a big loss but it still doesn’t explain why we conceded 14 points in 20 minutes. It wasn’t good enough.”
By Wayne Cousins
12/03/2012 5:00:46 PM
Wests Tigers Head Coach Tim Sheens offered no excuses for the poor start to the second half in the loss to Manly at Bluetongue Stadium last Friday night.
A dominant first half performance saw Wests Tigers lead 8-2 at half-time at Bluetongue Stadium before Manly capitalised on a slow start, some unforced errors and the loss of second-rower Gareth Ellis to a cork injury to take victory.
“It started poorly with us with losing Gareth and we had to re-organise ourselves. We had a couple of mistakes and then all of a sudden we were in quick sand just trying to get ourselves going again,’’ Sheens said.
“We eventually did but we had to chase the score which was too hard. There were good signs from us for most of the game.
“It was a very good first half of footy from both teams and it was a quality game of footy. Our first 15 to 20 minutes of the second half were terrible and we self inflicted a bit through some drop ball, missed tackles and we didn’t complete.
“We kicked off and then had to go back to back. That really hurt us. I thought we steadied and came back into the game okay but the game was over by then.”
Wests Tigers Captain Robbie Farah said the team spoke at half-time about getting their completions right.
“We came up with a couple of drop balls and some soft tries back to back which probably lost us the game in that 15 minutes,’’ Farah said.
“Losing Gareth was a big loss but it still doesn’t explain why we conceded 14 points in 20 minutes. It wasn’t good enough.”
