Gateshead Thunder head coach Chris Hood believes sloppy errors undid his side's hard work in Friday's 23-2 Championship defeat by Featherstone Rovers.

Thunder were in the game for large periods but were outplayed by the experienced Rovers side who left Hood's men without a league win in four.

"I'm disappointed because it was a game we should have been picking up points in," he told BBC Radio Newcastle.

"We've got to dust ourselves down and get on with it."

Next up for Thunder is a televised date with 1998 Challenge Cup winners Sheffield Eagles, in a match that was once a Super League fixture in the late 1990s.

Thunder remain bottom of the Championship, but have a Challenge Cup fifth round tie against Oldham at Darlington's Arena on Saturday, 9 May.

The match was switched to the 25,500-seat stadium as the club's International Stadium home is in use for the North Eastern Counties Track & Field Championships.

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