Western Force coach Simon Cron has apologised for the side's 22-14 loss to Moana Pasifika at HBF Park on Friday night, describing it as a "horrendous" display of rugby. Speaking after the side's fourth consecutive defeat Cron did not hold back.
"We've got to apologise to our supporters and fans," he said.
"That was some of the worst rugby I've ever seen.
"We were horrendous. Tonight would be our worst game this year.....very hard to see the good out of it.
"There was nothing pretty about it."
Cron was happy with the first 10 minutes of the game when he believed they had opportunities to score three tries.
"But then, I don't know, (we) put our head down a little bit," he said.
"We went into club rugby heroics.
"Every time we made a line break somebody tried to throw a miracle ball and gave it straight back.
"That rugby was hard to watch. Today was not a good example of rugby for us. End of story."
Cron said the coaching group had to turn things around before next Saturday's home game against the Queensland Reds (kick-off 4.35pm).
"As coaches we have to sit down and work out how we can help the team to be better," he said.
"We've got to sit down, re-evaluate what we are doing, how we can help people to be better.
"We have to focus on what we do and how we do it and we've got to get better at it.
"We'll start winning when we're good enough and tonight we weren't good enough."
Cron said that after the first 10 minutes the side did not get into shape and should have been turning the big Pasifika players on attack.
"They were walking 10 minutes in and we still didn't take advantage of it," he said.
"We probably fell into that a little bit of that ourselves, walking instead of speeding the game up.
"We complicated the simple."
Cron said the side lacked composure at crucial moments.
"We need to be a lot mentally tougher in those moments so we don't start worrying or panicking," he said.
"As coaches we've got to find a way to help them in those moments and help them when things don't go their way so they can handle it."
He said they gave away too many penalties but was "not fussed" about points bn the ladder.
"Performance is what I care about," he said.
"We need to have better performances in front of our supporters and the people who support us. The boys want it."
Captain Jeremy Williams said the side became desperate during the game.
"It kills you when you get desperate because try to overplay your hand and you look for those flashy offloads." he said.
Cron added that Wallabies scrum-half Nic White missed the game due to swelling in his knee but was optimistic on his availability for Round 5 against the Reds.
“He had a swollen knee,” he said. “You probably see today we missed him a bit.
“That’ll be dependent on how the swelling comes down… after Thursday it swelled up again so it was at a stage where we thought the risk-reward wasn’t there.”
