Warriors performance ‘unacceptable’ says Nathan Brown after defeat to Titans

Following the Warriors’ 20-18 loss against the Gold Coast Titans on Saturday, coach Nathan Brown stated his team’s performance was “unacceptable.”

The second game followed a similar pattern to the first, with a poor start, a strong middle period, and then a struggle to score towards the end.

The Titans scored their first try in under a minute and were up 12-0 after 14 minutes.

Brown claimed it wasn’t good enough for his players to fall behind that easily in the post-game press conference.

“It was just really poor, not good enough. Not good enough if you want to win games.

“We’re past trying to develop players, we want to win bloody games of footy and that wasn’t acceptable. A not good enough start.

“It was obviously a good effort to get back into the game and then get in front, like we did last week.

“But then we had two young outside backs drop the ball with the line open. Just purely and simply because they didn’t get deep enough.

“Again, not acceptable, not now with where we want to be as a football club. Yeah, really disappointing,”

The Warriors scored two tries late in the first half to take the lead, but failed to score another point, despite being the better team for most of that period. They did have chances to score, but blew them.

“You can’t drop the ball with the line open twice,” Brown said.

“It was a good game of footy, I’m not saying anyone was better than the other.

“Both sides had some periods that were better. Who deserved to win, I’m not sure. But whether you deserve to win or not. If you get the ball with no one in front of you, catch it, you put it down and you score and we had two glaring ones.

“We’ve got some talented young players, but they need to understand the consequences of not getting it right.

“That’s the disappointing thing, because it’s not alright. It costs you games and then it makes us all feel down and sour.