St George Illawarra coach Steve Price says his players produced their worst performance of the season in Friday’s Anzac Day defeat by the Sydney Roosters.
Price’s team went down 34-14 in front of a crowd of 38,784 at Allianz Stadium and although the premiers were impressive for most of the game, the Dragons didn’t help themselves with a disappointing performance.
After halftime the joint-venture completed just 64 per cent of their sets and missed 17 tackles to move to 4-4 for the campaign having won their opening three matches.
Price was pleased his side went in at the break trailing just 18-8, having been on the back foot for most of the game.
“Our skipper Ben Creagh was our best today, he really led us,” said Price.
“We knew what we were going to get from the Roosters, but we had a lack of discipline in the first half and that really hurt us.
“There were areas of our game that we were doing really, really well earlier in the season that we weren’t too flash at today.”
Price pin-pointed the Jake Friend try just after halftime, when he kicked and regathered to score, as the nail in the coffin for his side.
“We want to be a benchmark footy club and we weren’t today. Parts of the game were positive but parts I was very disappointed with,” he said.
“That try early in the second half really hurt us.”
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