A half-time roasting from skipper Mike Tindall helped inspire Gloucester's victory over Leeds according to head coach Bryan Redpath.
Redpath pays tribute to inspirational skipper
A half-time roasting from skipper Mike Tindall helped inspire Gloucester's 26-10 victory over Leeds according to head coach Bryan Redpath.
After trailing 10-6 at the break to the Guinness Premiership's basement outfit Redpath described his side's performance as 'dreadful and not acceptable'.
Tindall's outburst seemed to have the right effect, with quick tries after the break from Olivier Azam and James Simpson-Daniel putting the visitors in control by the 54th minute.
The captain led from the front with an impressive display that brought the 30-year-old the third try with virtually the last kick of the game.
Redpath paid tribute to the veteran England centre, whose brilliant midfield break had earlier set up Simpson-Daniel's try in the left corner.
"I thought Mike was outstanding for the whole game. He said a lot at half-time, which I was delighted with.
Dreadful
"I walked into the dressing room and Mike was already there telling the rest of the players where we needed to improve. Certainly our first-half performance was dreadful.
"At half-time I didn't hide from any of that because I thought it was important that the players understood it wasn't acceptable.
"It was difficult to blame everyone but I thought in the second half we did what we had talked about and executed far better."
Leeds, who have now slumped to four consecutive defeats, led inside the third minute through Tom Denton following a fine sweeping move.
The young flanker's try plus a conversion and penalty from fly-half Ceiron Thomas, gave Leeds a solid platform on which to build for their maiden win.
Mistakes
But ill-discipline that led to the sin-binnings of Hendrie Foure and Thomas either side of half-time ultimately proved costly against a Gloucester side still struggling to find their form.
"We were very confident that we had the gameplan to execute the win," said Leeds director of rugby Andy Key.
"But we made far, far too many mistakes in the second half. That gave them some opportunities and the sin-binnings certainly didn't help.
"We played 60 minutes with 14 men. But that showed the character of the side because we had a try disallowed and were still in the game.
"But we are hurting ourselves because of the mistakes that we are making."
