\n Head coach Sam Burgess was asked that very question following his side\u2019s heaviest defeat of a desperately poor season, and it was a notion he rejected.\n<\/p>\n
\n He did admit that his squad looked \u201cflat and defeated\u201d at half time after the Black and Whites ran up a 22-2 lead, with 18 of their points coming while Lachlan Fitzgibbon was in the sin bin following a head-high tackle on Sam Eseh.\n<\/p>\n
\n Warrington did stem the flow somewhat after the interval \u2013 and Burgess insisted he was heartened by some of what his side showed after the break \u2013 but they could not prevent being kept try-less for the first time this season.\n<\/p>\n
\n Here is everything the Wire boss said post-match\u2026\n<\/p>\n
\n Q: Your thoughts on the game please, Sam?\n<\/p>\n
\n SB: The bottom line is that the team are flat at the moment.\n<\/p>\n
\n We were trying hard, but then the yellow card hurt us. The 18 unanswered points in that period were tough.\n<\/p>\n
\n We were chasing after that \u2013 we were missing so many guys, as they are, but we over-tried and lost any ascendancy on the game.\n<\/p>\n
\n It\u2019s tough for them because they tried in a lot of areas, but it\u2019s not working at the moment.\n<\/p>\n
\n Q: One of the key traits of last season was the ability to ride out periods like that \u2013 sin-binnings, multiple sets on your own line \u2013 so is the lack of being able to do that now one of the more disappointing aspects of the year?\n<\/p>\n
\n SB: It\u2019s not last season. It\u2019s a new season and we\u2019re all finding that out.\n<\/p>\n
\n Last season counts for nothing and we\u2019ve got a lot of work to do.\n<\/p>\n
\n Q: But nevertheless, is it one of the more disappointing aspects of this year that that resilience has disappeared?\n<\/p>\n
\n SB: One of, yes.\n<\/p>\n
\n Q: I have to ask because this is what people are saying \u2013 did some of them give up?\n<\/p>\n
\n SB: It\u2019s a fair question, but I\u2019d say no. If we\u2019d have given up, we\u2019d have lost by 60.\n<\/p>\n
\n We saw Cai (Taylor-Wray) chase back to stop a try, Lachlan Fitzgibbon dived to stop Barron in the corner.\n<\/p>\n
\n We can all look at the end result but I look at the things in the middle of it \u2013 there\u2019s effort but is it good enough for this standard? Probably not, but they\u2019re not giving up.\n<\/p>\n
\n The three quick tries deflated them, but I disagree with anyone saying they gave up.\n<\/p>\n
\n Q: Are the younger lads like Cai Taylor-Wray and the like pretty blameless in what\u2019s gone on?\n<\/p>\n
\n SB: I truly believe good things will come from this period. I\u2019ve seen it as a player.\n<\/p>\n
\n We\u2019re going through a bit as a team and we\u2019re all learning bits about ourselves and each other which can only make them stronger, more resilient and more hardened to the brutality of this sport.\n<\/p>\n
\n Good things will come if it so for anyone sat in the negative tree \u2013 just hold on because good things will come. I know that.\n<\/p>\n
\n Q: Any issue with the sin bin?\n<\/p>\n
\n SB: Not really although I didn\u2019t really see it.\n<\/p>\n
\n I struggled to put 18 players out there today so hopefully the MRP see it kindly.\n<\/p>\n
\n If some of last week\u2019s were Grade As, I reckon that is too.\n<\/p>\n
\n Q: There was a bit of an uplift after half time \u2013 what did you say at half time to spark that?\n<\/p>\n
\n SB: I said a lot, actually.\n<\/p>\n
\n I wanted them to know that I cared about them as they looked flat and defeated, and I didn\u2019t like seeing them like that.\n<\/p>\n
\n I didn\u2019t really care what happened in the second half \u2013 I just wanted to see their response to each other.\n<\/p>\n
\n They got their heads up, put their shoulders back and behaved like men even though it was a tough night in a few aspects.\n<\/p>\n
\n We completed at 60 per cent while chasing the game in that second half but they scrambled.\n<\/p>\n
\n It\u2019s been one of those years but they did respond after half time.\n<\/p>\n
\n Q: You look like you need the end of the season to come now so how do you motivate them to come back to Hull in five days?\n<\/p>\n
\n SB: We\u2019ve got five days left and I\u2019ve just seen KR had a tough night tonight as well, so I can only imagine what\u2019s coming our way.\n<\/p>\n
\n We\u2019ve got a few injuries tonight so we\u2019ll see what guys we have available and see what 17 we can get together.\n<\/p>\n
\n I\u2019ll look for the same things I spoke about half time \u2013 I\u2019m not too worried about the scoreline or things like that, I\u2019m worried about how we carry ourselves because I don\u2019t want them to look like beaten people.\n<\/p>\n
\n We\u2019re going through a tough period as a group \u2013 no doubt about that \u2013 but as I\u2019ve said, good things will come from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head coach Sam Burgess was asked that very question following his side\u2019s heaviest defeat of a desperately poor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-135388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}