Barrow Raiders head coach Paul Crarey has urged his players to take more accountability after they slipped to a second league defeat of the season on Sunday. 

The Raiders were beaten 36-16 by Sheffield Eagles at the Matt Johnson Prestige Stadium with Kris Welham and Will Oakes both crossing twice for the visitors. 

Speaking post-match, Crarey admits his side didn’t do enough to deserve anything from the Round 2 fixture.

He said: "There were periods when we did take control, but then we let go.

"It was a 10-point ball game at half time – we were 80 per cent, I think they were 84, so it was quite a high-quality game, apart from some lapses in defence from us.

"I think we had five good ball sets, scored off two, dropped the ball on play one twice and on play three on the last one. 

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"We're not consistent with what we're doing, we're not fluid at the moment.

"Everyone's looking at everybody else, and we need to take some accountability in terms of individual forced errors.

"60 per cent in the second half, and eight errors, forcing the ball in great positions.

"We've got to sort that out and only they can do that as individuals.

"So, back to the drawing board this week – a little bit of improvement on last week (against Toulouse) in terms of desire, and getting a grip of the game.

"I don't think we got a grip of the game at all last week.

"But I'm not taking anything away from Sheffield, I thought they were very, very good.

"I watched them last week against Halifax and I thought they were very, very good in that game too.

"All credit to them, but we need to look at ourselves as individual errors before we can put that right and rectify anything else that we do.

"You can’t win games on eight errors and low completions.

"We talked about it last week, and we're talking about it this week.

"Lapses in defence cost us dearly, so we need to fix things up pretty quick."

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