Cardiff had to make do with two tries from Rhys Carre and one for Max Llewellyn, along with six points from the boot of Rhys Priestland, as they slipped to 14th in the final table.
'Wasn’t good enough for the jersey' - Dai Young
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'Wasn’t good enough for the jersey' - Dai Young
Dai Young has admitted that it “just wasn’t good enough for the jersey” following Cardiff's loss to Benetton.
Cardiff shipped 10 tries in the defeat in Treviso and were down 31-7 at half-time.
Callum Braley, Tomas Albornoz and Rhyno Smith all touched down twice for the home side, while Lorenzo Cannone, Michele Lamaro, Federico Ruzza and Giovanni Pettinelli were also on the scoresheet.
Smith racked up 29 points for the second week running – the most by any player in a URC match this season.
"We just looked really tired physically and mentally. No excuse. That’s a disappointing factor,” Dai Young told S4C after the game.
“We didn’t build pressure or momentum and they broke our line far too easy, especially around the forwards. Obviously you can play open rugby, but you have to have the skill levels to do it and we didn’t demonstrate that.”
"We just looked really tired physically and mentally. No excuse. That’s a disappointing factor,”
“We didn’t build pressure or momentum and they broke our line far too easy, especially around the forwards. Obviously you can play open rugby, but you have to have the skill levels to do it and we didn’t demonstrate that.”
He added: "I told the players - if that doesn’t hurt us then we don’t want to be here next year, it’s as simple as that. Unfortunately we’ve now got a long wait until we can put things right.
“It’s a really quiet changing room, but how can you tell if they’re really hurting? We’ll find that out next season when they come out and they need to use that as fuel to get better.”
