Cornish Pirates joint-head coach Gavin Cattle was unhappy with his side’s performance despite a bonus-point win over Caldy.
The Pirates ran out 34-27 winners to inflict a first defeat of the season on Caldy as they moved up to sixth in the Champ.
“We’ve just got to be way better than that,” Cattle told BBC Radio Cornwall.
“That wasn’t on the level we were last week or previous games where we’ve lost.”
Tom Sanders gave Caldy an early lead but Milo Hallam, Sol Moody and Dan Hiscocks crossed as Pirates led 19-5 after 30 minutes.
But Ollie Hearn pulled a try back for Caldy before Josh King’s bonus-point try made it 26-12 at the interval.
Pirates conceded a penalty try early in the second half but responded when Matty Ward got what proved to be a decisive fifth try before Hearn went over for a second time soon after.
“Credit to Caldy. I thought they played some good stuff, really clinical,” added Cattle.
“But we gifted field position, our penalty count was through the roof, like 19 penalties.
“Everybody looks at the referee, but what could we control? It was some real like obvious stuff that we can’t be doing, I think we’ve got away with one.”
