Lynch wants players to learn from victory

The Judges Road men were trailing 10-0 at half-time on Saturday and despite coming back to win convincingly, Lynch believes his side won't get that chance of fighting back against the stronger sides in the division.

"It's alright to go 13-0 down against a side like Banbridge but the better sides like the Greystones, the Seapoints, the Sunday Wells; we won't come back from there, so it was a good lesson for us," he said.

"When we get away from what we're good at, which is building phases and asking questions of the defence we're going to struggle against any team.

"We knew what was coming because Banbridge are a decent side. They are very physical and they slowed our ball down so we couldn't get any tempo into the game.

"When we managed to kick the ball on and get a bit of speed into it, then we were in business and it was a great second half for us.

"We couldn't build any possession or put them under any pressure. That's indicative of the first five minutes when we had three opportunities to score and took none of them."

The Kiwi also felt referee Gareth Dunlop didn't take full control of the game, as the visitors continued to stop-start the encounter.

"Daniel (Soper) is a very good coach and we knew that he would try to slow the ball down, unfortunately they were allowed to do that every line out.

"They condensed the line out so that the referee had to stop and we couldn't get any tempo into the game. It was a deliberate attempt but I'm sure the referee will look at the tape and will learn from it.

"There seemed to be a number of occasions when they slowed the ball up, even if it was just for a second. That made it hard for us to break them down in the first half, but when we won the contacts situation better and resourced the rucks with good numbers, then they couldn't stick with us, and that was the big difference; our accuracy at ruck time. It didn't allow them to kill the ball off.

"If a side manages to stop us getting the quick ball, it's a hard ask but this side is capable of scoring eight tries a half if the opposition allow them to give quick ball, and Banbridge were good enough to not do that for fifty minutes of the game. Once we upped our game, anything was possible. It was a good wake up call for us," concluded Lynch.