Cornish Pirates joint-head coach Gavin Cattle says he will take positives from his side’s heartbreaking 27-26 loss to Bedford in the Champ.<\/p>\n
Will Maisey’s penalty with three minutes to go secured victory for the Blues at the Mennaye as Pirates lost for a second successive week.<\/p>\n
The home side did, though, earn two bonus points from the loss and move up a spot to fourth in the table, but the gap to third-placed Bedford is now eight points. <\/p>\n
“I thought it was a hell of a game, I think both teams had their opportunities as the scoreline would suggest,” Cattle told BBC Radio Cornwall. <\/p>\n
“There’s some positives to take from it – I thought we were under pressure a lot in the first half in defence, we were spaced quite widely and they were picking us off, but we physically were there, I felt.<\/p>\n
“Our set piece in patches showed some extreme power, so that’s sort of turning the corner, but we’re not converting our pressure at the minute and I suppose Bedford could argue they had a good spell for about 10 minutes in our 22 where they’d want to come away with more points.<\/p>\n
“But it was a tightly-fought game, great effort from both sides but we’ll be looking at some key moments that we just didn’t manage that eventually gave them that extra point to win.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cornish Pirates joint-head coach Gavin Cattle says he will take positives from his side’s heartbreaking 27-26 loss to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-347442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}