Ahead of playing at Mt Smart Stadium for the second time this year, Tevaga said his side must develop a harder edge for the final six games of the season and stop turning on each other when the chips are down.
Halfback Shaun Johnson and forwards Addin Fonua-Blake and Jazz Tevaga all acknowledged tempers had been running high of late, but also pointed to signs of improvement in recent defeats to the Eels and Raiders.
“We are pretty mentally weak at the moment and when something goes against us it has a snowball effect, and that’s just built up [out] of frustration,” Tevaga said. “Then guys start spraying each other – there’s been a bit of toxic sprays on the field – and that’s something we’ve got to get out of our game.
We have been through a lot of s**t this year and it’s just frustrating. I don’t want to use it as an excuse, but it definitely plays a part.“I just think a lot of the boys have just had enough… then when things go wrong it’s just like ‘oh, here we go again’, that’s the sort of feeling we have been getting.
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