St. Stelens Paul Wellens admitted that “basic mistakes” cost his party, which could be a declaration of Derby’s victory over local rivals Wigan Warriors, when they fell to 24-14 defeats at the brick stadium.
The saints mounted the comeback in the second half with Lewis Murphy and Agnatius Paasi tried to bring the score to 18-14, with only seven minutes.
Late Tristan Sailor Klepl Abbas Miski’s second attempt to contest with only two minutes on the lesson, Harry Smith’s conversion packed victory for the home team and let the Saints fans think about what could be.
Despite the fighting fight, the first half performance of St. Helens all, but sealed victory for its strongest rivals, Wigan is heading in Buoyant and 12-2 at a break after attempts at Jai Field and Miski.
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Lewis Murphy immerses for a sensational attempt for ST Helens
While Wigan showed the skills to earn his points, it was the saints who gave them the territory in which they did, four knock-on-only by Alex Walmsley, two of Joe Batchelor, plus the late naval adding summarizing the afternoon where Flair was stopped by players.
For Wellensa it was even more frustrating, because his party was too much to allow a native of St Helens to admit that he was “frustrated” by a lack of concentration.
“My news of the team in the dressing room after the game was that a lot of pressure we suffered in the first 40 minutes was supported,” Wellens said.
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Jai Field scored excellent opening for Wigan
“There were no mistakes playing rugby, they were basic mistakes in the ball game and not quite this side correctly.
“It is obvious that the conditions have changed quite quickly, but you have to be good enough to adapt. You may have one possible, but we had two, three, four, five, six, and that is too much against the quality of the opposition against.
“All points came from us who gave up the attitude of the field with cheap errors. It is clear that two kick attempts, one at the end where we spilled the ball. We haven’t disintegrated so much and you can say the same for them.
“These are two good defensive sites, but if you give teams like Wigan more field positions than you would like to show, like Bevan (French) comes up with a game to kick Jai (Field) and Jai’s attempt, which was our only real system break -up.
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Field scored his second attempt at Wigan from nearby range
“We like our performance a lot, but we can’t have the same conversations about how we sometimes don’t get big games through our own lack of concentration.
“What we have to be is a little more patient, a little harder, do not make these mistakes soon in the game. And that could come for us a little earlier, but I was really proud of how we finished the game.
“And I will be honest with you when we got the last attempt, I felt as if we were to continue with a big chance and win the game, but it just wasn’t.”
There will be a big victory and we will be able to say that we deserved it!
This is not the first time that St Helens suffered from the hands of the Big Pages of Super League, and their own discipline was a problem, Wellens himself quoted his two recent losses against Warrington as examples where “basic mistakes” killed Saints’ their own chances.
Now he wants St Helens to fix simple things so that, as they believe so, they can come well and can say that they deserve victory in a big game.
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Header Stelens Paul Wellens said his party was the engineers of his own fall in the defeat on Wigan Warriors
“This is my frustration and this is the frustration of the team, because lately a few Warrington games lately and apparently I can not help today, but I continue in similar interviews,” Wellens added.
“We do everything about our efforts and try to win games, but not just nailing a few important runs.
“If we want to take the next step, which I think we will do, I have no doubt about it for one second.
“I have been leaving since today and Wigan has been a comparative team in the last few years, but not leaving them because I think they are much better than what we are. They are two very good pages that can be difficult to beat.
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Coach Wigan Warriors Matt Peet was proud of how his team “overcome adversity”
“Apparently on the opening stock exchanges, they control the ball much better than we had, and that had a big word about the result of the day. We sent the report to the players to continue this game because we were sure there would be an opportunity for us and their recognition.
“So I really encourage myself that there is a playing group that doesn’t give up, they don’t say it’s not our day. They have almost changed it on their day by their own determination and hard work.
“But I will return to the same point again, we probably have too much to do it especially on such an occasion.
“We only made the basic basic mistakes that were real murderers for us.
“In the end, we couldn’t say from there that we deserve to win.”
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