Coach blows up at errors, penalties
ERRORS and penalties are the costly one-two blow preventing Tweed from getting on a roll seven rounds into the Intrust Super Cup season.
After strong performances in their first two games, the Seagulls have gone loss-winloss-win-loss, with a 26-6 defeat in Redcliffe yesterday the latest result in that sequence.
A try to young Dolphins halfback Cory Paix pushed the home side’s buffer to 18-0 as they made Tweed pay for their mistakes.
“We weren’t great,” coach Ben Woolf said. “We just compounded errors with penalties and gave them way too much possession early on. They had an extra nine sets or something in the first half so that sort of wore on us.
“We kicked the first set out on the full, made an error the next set and gave penalties in two of our first three sets defensively. You can’t do that.”
Woolf said a lack of patience and execution was to blame, yet again, and it was up to the entire group to turn things around as they strive to move up the pecking order.
“It’s not individuals necessarily – well it is individuals but just different people all of the time. Early errors or the latetackle penalties, those two things are what is killing us the most,” he said.
“And then off the back of it, we’re just not composed enough I guess.
“I still don’t think we have played anywhere near our best footy in any of our games to be honest and the pleasing thing is that we have won some games, so if we can get everything right, hopefully we’ll be a lot better team than what we are showing at the moment.
“It’s just a matter of getting the confidence and the combinations to do that.”
Cheyne Whitelaw is in doubt for their next-up home match against Ipswich after copping a bad head knock.