Not good enough, says frustrated Titans coach Jones

COACH Mark Jones says that some players in the Clifton Lane camp have got to up their game in a rapidly developing relegation fight in the Championship.

Yesterday's 34-24 defeat at Doncaster was Rotherham's eighth on the spin as Jones' men slipped to third from the bottom. Consolation was that the bottom two, Moseley and Ealing, both lost leaving the Titans eight points clear but still having to play both away from home.

Titans were good at times against a misfiring Knights side and scored three tries through Sean Scanlon, Jack Hayes and Toby Williams.

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But it was an at times bad discipline streak which allowed the hosts to score five tries, four coming from rolling mauls.

That, says Jones, wasn't good enough.

He said: "You have to look how naive we are in certain areas. You can't go to Doncaster and be so inaccurate in key moments.

"We conceeded at set-piece mauls, which is what happens in this league because they are very effective, but when you have discipline like we did and give the opposition two, three, four, five opportunities in key areas to drive mauls then they'll score them nine times out of ten.

"Our level of discipline is unacceptable as a group of individuals. We set high standards in the first eight or nine weeks of the season and averaged less than eight penalties per game and now we 're in the early to high teens - you can't do that against a side of the quality of Doncaster.

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Titans now switch their attentions to this Saturday's home clash with Bristol.

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