CORRY ANNOYED AT LETTING WASPS DOMINATE
Leicester Tigers captain Martin Corry conceded that his team were always going to find it hard to come back from 23-6 at the interval, as London Wasps captured their fourth Guinness Premiership title in the past six seasons.
The 34-year-old former England captain dished out a stern half-time team talk, and his troops responded through tries from winger Tom Varndell and scrum-half Harry Ellis to pull back the score to 23-16. But, as fly-half Andy Goode fluffed 10 kickable points, it proved too little too late.
Corry said: “We left ourselves too much to do. Wasps are a side with a much talked about defence and it was always going to make it tough when you have to chase a lead. Everything we said we shouldn't do, we probably did in the first-half.
“We always felt even when went behind that if we can hit our game, and when we hit our game we're a very difficult side to beat. Today summed up the whole season – our problem is that when we don't hit our game we look quite ordinary and when we do we look very dangerous.
“We've got the Guinness Premiership final and we've lost. But we'll show the Leicester spirit and come back better and stronger next season.”
Leicester Tigers captain Martin Corry conceded that his team were always going to find it hard to come back from 23-6 at the interval, as London Wasps captured their fourth Guinness Premiership title in the past six seasons.
The 34-year-old former England captain dished out a stern half-time team talk, and his troops responded through tries from winger Tom Varndell and scrum-half Harry Ellis to pull back the score to 23-16. But, as fly-half Andy Goode fluffed 10 kickable points, it proved too little too late.
Corry said: “We left ourselves too much to do. Wasps are a side with a much talked about defence and it was always going to make it tough when you have to chase a lead. Everything we said we shouldn't do, we probably did in the first-half.
“We always felt even when went behind that if we can hit our game, and when we hit our game we're a very difficult side to beat. Today summed up the whole season – our problem is that when we don't hit our game we look quite ordinary and when we do we look very dangerous.
“We've got the Guinness Premiership final and we've lost. But we'll show the Leicester spirit and come back better and stronger next season.”
Labels: Guinness Premiership, Leicester Tigers, Marcelo Loffreda, Martin Corry, Wasps
