Jamaica captain Ashton Golding praised his gamers for the way in which they approached their 68-6 defeat to New Zealand as Ben Jones-Bishop marked his three hundredth profession look along with his nation’s first attempt of the World Cup finals.
The skilled Sheffield Eagles full-back, who made his identify in Super League with Leeds Rhinos, crossed late within the recreation to spark wild celebrations on the pitch and within the 6,829 crowd on the MKM Stadium.
Jones-Bishop scored the Reggae Warriors’ first attempt of the competitors nevertheless it was New Zealand who took two factors from a Pool C contest to all however safe their place within the quarter-finals.
Golding additionally praised his gamers for the way they saved going to the tip of what had been a tricky contest.
Golding, who performs for Huddersfield in Super League, stated: “As a player I like to go into games fully focused on ourselves. We did ourselves proud in areas, effort and attitude-wise you can’t knock it.
“Going into the game it was all about us. What we can do on the field and what we can do off the field.
“Hopefully we can capture people’s imaginations, from one to 17 I’m so proud of the boys. There were 17 leaders out there.
“Really happy with the way we came through at the end. We stuck at it and we got something from the game.”
Despite the heavy defeat, Golding was delighted to see full-back Jones-Bishop get his nation’s first attempt on their debut within the World Cup finals.
Golding stated: “There can’t be a more fitting person to score the try and cap his 300th appearance.”
Jamaica lead coach Jermaine Coleman echoed Golding’s phrases about Jones-Bishop.
Coleman stated: “There is not a more fitting person amongst our group to get that try. It’s an amazing moment for him. We wanted to make this a special occasion for him.”
New Zealand wing Dallin Watene-Zelezniak scored 4 of his facet’s tries because the Kiwis crossed 13 instances in whole, however didn’t let the feat go to his head.
He stated of his efficiency: “It was some fun times out there. I haven’t had a game like that in a while.”
New Zealand had been removed from their greatest of their opening pool victory over Lebanon and head coach Michael Maguire was happy to see them up their efficiency towards Jamaica.
Maguire stated: “We talked about our combinations from our last performance. We scored some really good tries. We got a lot out of it.
“It was more about playing in the style that we wanted to and the points came off the back of that.
“There were areas in the Lebanon game (to improve). To score the tries the way we did showed we were getting better. I thought our defence was really strong at times.”
New Zealand have been with out stand-off Dylan Brown as a consequence of sickness and Maguire was happy with the way in which his facet coped.
Maguire stated: “The crew are pretty good at adjusting to what’s thrown at them. The boys just do what they need to for each other.”
Captain James Fisher-Harris added of his facet’s win: “It’s a special moment with the boys turning up for me. It was all in all just a good performance from the boys.”
Source: www.impartial.co.uk
