The only game in which they avoided defeat was a 12-12 draw at Doncaster in January and their relegation was confirmed by a 31-7 loss to Ealing on 15 April.<\/p>\n
“I’ve never been through a campaign like this when we’ve not had a win – [but] I still feel the love from the supporters, the board and the players. The club have been through some tough times before and hopefully we can bounce back,” said Newby.<\/p>\n
“Next year in National One is going to be a difficult challenge. There are some good teams in there that have goals as lofty as ours but hopefully we can consolidate. “<\/p>\n
On their final Champ game, he added: “We knew it was going to be a festival game, a beautiful day, both teams with nothing on the line in terms of the league. <\/p>\n
“At one point, when it was 40-odd to 20-odd, I thought ‘OK, can we get the next one?’ But we didn’t and then they had a purple patch. <\/p>\n
“It’s disappointing to finish that way but being relegated a few weeks ago, the last three games have been hard to motivate the group in terms of execution and individual performance.<\/p>\n
“As a collective, we’ve stuck together and fought for each other [but] we just haven’t been good enough from number one through to 23.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The only game in which they avoided defeat was a 12-12 draw at Doncaster in January and their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-663612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663612","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=663612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}