Catalans Dragons head coach Joel Tomkins has accused some of his players of giving up in the loss to St Helens with the Englishman pulling no punches after their 36-4 loss.

The overwhelming majority of those St Helens points, 30 of them, came in the final 30 minutes of the game with Tomkins pointing to Lewis Dodd’s ‘No Try’ call as a turning point.

Dodd tried to ground the ball but fell just short and knocked on in the process, failing to score and make it 6-6. Just two minutes later and Jacob Host crashed over to make it 12-0, with Catalans falling away after that point.

“I thought that was a big turning point there,” Tomkins said post-match on Sky Sports when asked about the Lewis Dodd ‘No Try’.

“I thought we did some good things for the first 50 minutes, to be honest, I was pretty proud of the boys. A lot of things went against us that first half, but they hung in there, toughed it out, and then at half-time we were confident we could come out and attack the game.

“If Dodd scores that try, who knows what would have happened, but that last 30 minutes isn’t acceptable.”

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Catalans Dragons boss ‘really annoyed’ at performance

Expanding on why that final half-hour wasn’t acceptable, Tomkins claimed that members of his side ‘gave up’ after captain Benjamin Garcia went off with an injury.

He said: “There were some really soft tries, and I think once Ben Garcia left the field, a couple of boys gave up there, so we’ve got to address that and be much better, or it’s going to be a long few weeks.

“I just thought that last 30 minutes were really soft, a couple of barge over tries, and our movement in defence. Ben Garcia does a lot for us in the middle, and I was really disappointed with the reaction when he had to come off injured.”

Tomkins continued: “I’m really annoyed, really, at the last 30 minutes there. I thought we probably played tough for 50 minutes and then really soft for 30 minutes.”

With Leigh Leopards, who also suffered a heavy defeat in round three, next up, Tomkins claimed that his side won’t have any easy games unless they perform for the full 80 minutes.

He said: “I don’t think we’ll have any easy games. I think every game will be pretty difficult for us. We’ve got to turn up and play probably the way we did in the first 40, 50, 80 minutes.

“For us as a squad and the quality that we’ve got, if we’re not on for 80 minutes, then we’re not going to get results, so it’s pretty important for us to fix that up as a group of players and a group of staff, and we’ll be working on that from Monday morning.”

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