United complacency blamed

Player-coach Adam Cowan says complacency could have played a part in Trust House Wairarapa United's surprise 4-2 defeat by Tawa in their Central League football match at Tawa on Saturday.
The competition leaders were generally expected to be too strong for a Tawa side sitting eight points below them on the points table but seldom showed anything like the form which had seen string together five successive wins.
"Quite frankly we were pretty ordinary in the warm-ups before the game and not a lot better once we got started," Cowan said.
"You don't like to think complacency comes into it but I guess it might have happened, we certainly didn't have the intensity we needed to have."
Despite their below par efforts Wairarapa United were 2-1 ahead early in the second spell but Tawa dominated from that point on, scoring three unanswered goals to secure the victory.
"It was disappointing, that's all you can say about it," Cowan said of his team's performance. "They (Tawa) are a useful side but we made them look a lot better than they are."
Campbell Banks scored both Wairarapa United's goals, the first of them coming from a penalty after Dale Higham had been fouled. That at least was one plus to come out of the game for Wairarapa United as in two earlier matches they had failed to score from the penalty spot.
On the plus side, defender Nathan Cooksley continued his form and was his usual aggressive self in that area of play.
Saturday's defeat means Wairarapa United have been joined at the top of the Central League points table by Miramar Rangers.