Eagerness to impress affecting Worcester Warriors - Wallis

Wallis opened the scoring as Warriors kickstarted the second half of their Champ Rugby campaign against Hartpury.

Despite putting the right foot forward early on, Wallis' early score was followed by four unanswered tries by Hartpury, who ultimately claimed a 34-28 victory.

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"We’ve had two weeks, no games, two weeks of absolutely brutal training to be honest – the boys have been absolutely ripping in," Wallis told Worcester News after the final whistle.

"To come out and not quite perform how we want to, it’s frustrating.

"The work we put in this weekend and then not come away with the win in that is gutting but hopefully it will be fuel to the fire now.

"The last two weeks we’ve been training ridiculously hard, working on the stuff that we’ve not been doing well enough with. I thought coming into this game we would be absolutely flying but it just shows on the day we need to turn up, need to keep working on those things."

Going into the break 14-28 down, not performing with their set piece, Warriors were much improved in the second half but left themselves too much of a hill to climb.

Wallis added: "I’m not sure what it was in the first half to be honest, it just didn’t feel like we quite turned up. In the second half you could see that we turned up and we had that fight.

"I think it is just momentum – we gave them too much momentum in that first half just with penalties and our set piece wasn’t working as it should be.

"In that second half our set piece turned up – both the line-out and the scrum - we were getting penalties and walking forward. It’s just a shame we couldn’t get the points in the end – it just comes down to penalties, too many easy penalties for them.

"We took the messages which we were given for the last two weeks forward into this game, but we still just went back to penalties, basic stuff like that.

"It’s the easiest way to let a team into the game through penalties. We have just got to play smart rugby I think.

"It’s actually eagerness that sometimes kills us. Because we’re so eager to impress and to turn up that sometimes you just get the wrong side of the referee."