Featherstone Rovers 6 Toulouse Olympique 23 - Coach rues poor completion rate as unbeaten run is ended

DEFEAT: Featherstone Rovers 6-23 Toulouse Olympique. Picture: Dec Hayes Photography.

JAMES Webster rued a poor second-half completion rate as Featherstone Rovers’ 13-game winning run was ended by league leaders Toulouse Olympique on Sunday.

The defeat means the French outfit are the only unbeaten side in the Championship this year as Rovers suffered their first league defeat of 2021.

Rovers were hit by injury withdrawals in the build-up to the contest as Dane Chisholm was not passed fit after Saturday’s team run while full-back Will Dagger pulled out in the warm-up.

Toulouse have not played as many games as Rovers this year but Webster admitted that it was the errors from Featherstone that cost them the victory.

“You have got to give credit to Toulouse, I thought they were really good,” said the Rovers coach.

“Yeah, they have a couple of advantages over us but in saying that, I didn’t think we gave ourselves a chance to get in any flow of the game.

“With a completion rate of 35 per cent in the second half, you are not going to beat a team in the amateur leagues, let alone a team as good as Toulouse.

“We need to dust ourselves off.”