“It was certainly not easy and if I am going to be brutally honest, we were second best.
“That is not being defeatist. I thought with our character and defensive stuff, there were a hell of a lot of positives, don’t get me wrong.
“But I openly said in the press that I worried about this game physically and I wanted a performance for the first 45 minutes and I thought we did that and created problems.
“I think everyone is well aware of the situation we are in at the minute with injuries and Kells (Liam Kelly) and Jonno (Jonson Clarke-Harris) were ill and that killed us a little bit.
“But it is what it is. We don’t make excuses.
“Fair plat to the kids, I thought Hamish Douglas came in and did really well and Holmesy (Jack Holmes).
“I don’t want to be too negative as it’s an unbelievable three points against what is in my opinion a top, top team. I just said to their players and Schuey (Steve Schumacher) - although he probably doesn’t want to hear it - they will go up if the keep playing like that."