After defeat to Bath, Newcastle No.8 Callum Chick admitted: “I don’t think we did ourselves justice out there today. We just let ourselves down.
"That first 20, we had total dominance and were in their 22 for a long period of time but errors in the red zone meant that we came away without the points.”
Director of rugby Dave Walder agreed: “We lacked energy, something we’ll have to look at as coaches, and as a playing group we made too many simple errors.
"We started the game pretty well and put them under pressure but weren’t clinical enough and lost confidence pretty quickly, doubled up on...