They fed off our mistakes in the first half, and all credit to them for the way they dug it out in the second half.

You get a win like this, you learn from it. You learn from your mistakes and you realize you made some mistakes, but you can still win.

Maybe the mistakes have looked worse because they led to goals.

Suppose I were to give you a key ring [...] with a hundred keys, and I were to tell you that one of these keys will unlock it, this door we're imagining opening in onto all you want to be, as a player. How many of the keys would you be willing to try?'
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'Well I'd try every darn one,' Rader tells Lyle.
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'Then you are willing to make mistakes, you see. You are saying you will accept 99% error. The paralyzed perfectionist you say you are would stand there before that door. Jingling the keys. Afraid to try the first key.

The last two weeks we haven't been as ruthless there as we could have been so those couple of tries off kick receipts were pretty good.

The fact is we came back. We gifted 15 points to a good team and were unlucky to lose.