Kilbane Pleased With Leeds Performance
Rotherham Titans current longest serving player Jamie Kilbane was very satisfied with his personal and the team’s performance against Leeds Carnegie. Kilbane, a Titan since 2005, believes the green shoots of progress are starting to appear.
Giving his thoughts on Sunday’s match Jamie explained, “It was a much improved team performance from people who may not have played so well last week really; they went out of their way to redeem themselves. We kicked all of our kicks and we played in the correct parts of the field for the majority of the game.
“Second half we had a bit of a poor start, but I’m not sure if that was the referee trying to equal the penalty count as we had quite a lot in the first half. But I think we conceded more penalties than I thought we actually deserved to and that kind of let them back into the game at the end.
“I also think the score line flattered Leeds a bit, because it was no way near that close in the match and we were dominant for the majority of the game.
“I can understand the fans being nervous at the end and in the Championship anything can happen. But as professional rugby players you just have to maintain your composure. And you have to have confidence in your team mates that they are going to keep it tight and every ones going to do what they’re meant to do and that nobody is going to make any mistakes.”
Jamie had one of his best games in a Rotherham shirt, but he refuses to get carried away with himself and maintains both feet firmly on the ground as he analysis his own performance, “It’s a step in the right direction, but it’s still nowhere near as good as I can be I don’t think. But certainly I redeemed myself a little bit from last week. We worked a lot better as a unit in the front row and that gave us a lot more dominance than we’d had the week before.
“So what we need to do now is, again learn from this experience and find out and analyse what we’ve done wrong and try to put that right.
I suppose the concept is every game is a learning experience, trying to build and improving throughout the season.”
Jamie not one for basking in glory, already has his sights on the next game away at Plymouth Albion on Friday evening. Jamie is aware of the challenge that Albion will provide and said, “Plymouth away is always really difficult; to get any kind of result down there is an achievement, because they have a very individual style. I’ve not done any analysis on them so far this week, but it would be foolish of us to think that we are going to go down there and get an easy victory.
“Any victory you get on the road is incredibly difficult in this league and every team’s home ground is like a fortress. Every club wants to have an unbeaten home record because that’s their natural advantage. Plymouth is a tricky team, they’ve got good attacking backs and a solid set of forwards, so we are going to have to work very hard to come away with a result, but I think we’ve definitely got in us to do so.”
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