Sloppy Saracens upset Pienaar

Saracens chief executive Francois Pienaar believes the lack of experience in his injury-ravaged back line is crippling their Premiership campaign.

Pienaar was critical of his backs - shorn of injured Duncan McRae, Tim Horan and Thomas Castaignede - after their shock 19-8 defeat at bottom club Rotherham.

It was Saracens' sixth reverse in their last eight games, a slide which has seen them slip 10 points behind leaders Leicester, having played two games more.

Pienaar said: 'I was disappointed with the way we played, but not with the result. The better team won. Our handling in the backs was too sloppy. We just don't have the experience there. Outside Kryan Bracken at scrum half, we had no experience and it showed.' Fly half Simon Binns, playing his first game since September following a shoulder operation, produced a top-drawer performance and scored one of Rotherham's two tries during an exciting second half. An injury-time try by Peter Massey sealed a deserved victory.