BARROW Raiders Ladies head coach Amanda Wilkinson wasn’t pulling any punches following their 46-6 home defeat at the hands of Wigan Warriors.

Wilkinson says her team must start to take their chances and not just talking about it if they are to prevent big defeats.

Speaking to the club’s official Facebook page, she said: “I don’t think they (Wigan) were worthy of 40 points against us, but you know if you don’t take your chances when you’ve got them 9that’s what happens.

“The last few chances that we conceded were poor by our standards in defence.

“You know if you are going to defend like that for the last part of the game then you are going to concede.

“I think disappointing (to describe the game) is probably the right word.

“I think you can tell by my body language that I am disappointed as a coach. I really believed we would have gone out there and had a really good performance.

“We prepared well, we knew what to expect, and yeah they have made changes to the squad and stuff, but I did feel we dominated the first 20 minutes of the game and we had opportunities there and field position, and we didn’t capitalise on them.

“We have spoke about this too many times now, and you know that’s going to keep happening to us.

“We are going to keep getting punished if we have teams like Wigan coming here and putting 40 odd points on us, because we don’t execute when we get opportunities.”

Raiders were hit by a couple of injuries during the clash at Northern Competitions Stadium, meaning Wilkinson had to reshuffle her squad.

But she wasn’t looking to use that as any excuse for how her team played.

She added: “Losing our full-back just before we went in at half-time and having to put our second rower in there wasn’t ideal, but I actually thought she did a really good job in there.

“But then also losing our centre into the second half and having no backs on the bench to come on really disjointed us.

“We had to make a lot of changes, but I don’t think that’s the reason why we missed tackles, or why we made poor decisions with the ball.

“I think the damage was done in the first half in letting them run away with pace and scoring tries against us when we had the ball and all the possession.”