Leicester coach Heyneke Meyer felt there was still plenty of room for improvement after his side's 24-22 triumph over London Irish.
Tigers coach focused on the negatives
Leicester Tigers coach Heyneke Meyer felt there was still plenty of room for improvement after his side's 24-22 triumph over London Irish.
Exiles full-back Peter Hewat missed a conversion with one minute left to ensure Meyer kept intact his 100 percent record as Tigers boss.
But the South African was far from satisfied with events at Welford Road on Saturday.
"When we were a try up, we should have finished the game off and we need to work harder on our game management," he said.
"They preyed on our mistakes and we put ourselves under pressure.
"I am not happy with the performance. There are a lot of areas that we need to improve.
Hard work
"They pushed us very hard in midfield. We will need to work very hard in Monday.
"It was a win but there is still a very long way to go. We should have scored more tries.
"It will take time for us to adapt to the interpretation of the rules but that is no excuse - we should have dealt with that better.
"I will always take an ugly win over a pretty loss."
A well-worked move saw Toby Flood put full-back Geordan Murphy over for Leicester early on but Irish soon edged ahead.
Eoghan Hickey's long-range penalty and Steffon Armitage's try saw the Exiles stretch out in front before Flood's penalty on the stroke of half-time levelled matters at 10-10.
For the second time in the match, the visitors regained the lead courtesy of Seilala Mapusua's opportunistic score but yet again Leicester drew level through Tom Croft.
Red-hot Herring
With 13 minutes remaining Ben Herring went over for the home side and in a frantic finale Delon Armitage's stunning try gave Hewat the opportunity to seal a draw only for the full-back to hook his effort from the touchline.
And after turning over Guinness Premiership champions Wasps last week, Exiles boss Tony Booth was left frustrated after his side failed to repeat the trick against the Tigers.
"When you put yourself into a position to win the game, it's tough when you don't win," said Booth.
"You make it difficult for yourself if you don't win your own ball and you have to try and find other ways of getting into attacking positions.
"We only won a third of our ball but we have run a very, very good side very close.
"We were very good last week and we were nearly very good this week. We are trying to adopt a ruthless streak and we need to do that if we want to win trophies.
"Welford Road is a very difficult place to come. But we have beaten everyone in the past three years and mentally, it's important that we come over those hurdles."
