Cockerill blasts performance

20 September 2014The Tigers failed to score for only the second time in Premiership history as rampant Bath scored five tries and England fly-half hopeful George Ford kicked 20 points.

And to rub salt into a gaping Leicester wound, replacement scrum-half David Mele was sent off for stamping late in the game.

"We couldn't cope with the set-piece, and if you get no set-piece parity you are always going to struggle," Cockerill said.

"Credit to Bath.

It was pretty average from us, at best, and we got exactly what we deserved.

"If you have got the quality we've got missing, s…