1895 Cup final: Featherstone Rovers coach Paul Cooke

Featherstone Rovers coach Paul Cooke reflects on his side's 5-4 loss to York Knights in the 1895 Cup final at Wembley.

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00:00I'm disappointed, but as I said to the players after the game, we need to be striving to be involved in these games.

00:09We also need to be striving to get more of the bigger moments right, instead of almost right or not right at all.

00:17There's some really harsh lessons in there for us, particularly at the end of the game.

00:21If anybody's going to ask me about a drop goal, I'm going to get the same answer as you and somebody's going to get a hard time for it.

00:27Because we've had ample chance there.

00:30I think we've made enough of the game, second half particularly, we've changed some things at half time.

00:35We've made enough of a fist of the second half with some clean breaks and some big moments that we just didn't capitalise on.

00:42Sometimes in the Premier League you get what you deserve.

00:45Today, second half, I'm not sure we deserved that, but we didn't win enough of the big moments for me.

00:51What are they like in the dressing room?

00:53Disappointed, of course.

00:54Coming down to Wembley is not about coming and taking part, and we know that.

00:59It's about winning the game.

01:01Finishing second isn't good enough for us.

01:04As I've said to the players, we're going to be involved in some big games, and we're going to be involved in big games at the end of the season.

01:10We're going to make sure we are, because we're going to continue to work as hard as we have to get where we are today.

01:16When them big games come along again, and when them big moments come along again, we've got to be better and take them and win games like this.

01:21So, whilst it's disappointing right now, I'm sure we'll get over it.

01:25It's not like losing the grand final and having three or four months to mull it over.

01:29We've only got a week before our next game tomorrow, week tomorrow, and then we've got some big games coming up,

01:35which puts us in a position to get in the top six and stay in the top six.

01:40So, we're involved in big games at the end of the season.