'There's no point feeling sorry for ourselves' - Ludlam reflects on Saints' latest loss

The black, green and gold suffered another humbling home loss on Saturday as Harlequins scored six tries in a 49-29 Gallagher Premiership success.

It was Saints' eighth defeat from as many home league matches in 2020, and their 14th loss in the past 16 matches they have played.

But Ludlam, who returned from England duty to score twice for Saints against Quins, said: "It's never easy, no one likes losing but as a group of boys we're tight.

"We're brothers at the end of the day and we're staying tight and staying as positive as possible because there's no point feeling sorry for ourselves.

"We've got to go again and we've got to keep that buzz between us.

"It's a long season, it's still early days and this team has got the potential to do some good things but it's just about showing it and solving those errors as quickly as possible."

On the defeat to Quins, Ludlam said: "It's obviously disappointing.

"We do some good things, but we don't do it often enough.

"We switch off for too long a periods and that's where we're really suffering at the moment.

"We have to have some honest conversations on Monday because we've got to turn around to go again (at Bristol Bears) on Friday night."

Saints have now shipped 81 points in their opening two Premiership matches, having lost 32-23 at Sale Sharks on the opening night.

"When you score 29 points, it should be enough to win a game at home," Ludlam said.

"Defensively we're really disappointed and that's individual things as well, stuff we've got to talk about on Monday.

"But we've got to learn our lessons before it gets too much of an issue.

"We're just switching off for too long.

"It's all well and good doing good things for 10-minute periods, but if you switch off for five or 10 minutes, a team like Quins are really going to punish you.

"Our big work-on is staying in the game for longer, staying in defensive sets for longer and staying in the moment as much as possible.

"If you give a team like Quins crumbs then they're going to take them.

"It's something we're going to have to solve really quickly."