Western Force captain Michael Wells and coach Simon Cron have pulled no punches after their horror 71-20 loss to the Queensland Reds, describing the thrashing as “bitterly disappointing”. The Force gave up to 10 tries as they were blown out of the water by a rampant Reds outfit in one of the worst losses in the club’s history. Despite the Force being within nine points a few minutes out from half-time, the Reds slammed the door shut and ran riot in the second half, while injuries and a controversial red card to Ollie Callan compounded matters. Wells, who was forced from the field and failed a Head Injury Assessment, said it was tough to watch the carnage unfold from the sidelines. “It’s bitterly disappointing. You want to come and compete, so to be able to not individually compete because of a head knock is less than ideal,” he said. “In terms of the team, I’m more worried about that and seeing 70 points put on you is bitterly disappointing. “It’s not almost unacceptable; it is unacceptable from our point of view. It hurts. “We regrouped after the game, I pulled everyone in and said ‘accept the feeling, acknowledge it, remember it, because right now, that doesn’t happen again. ’” Cron labelled the loss “inexcusable” and said it was imperative the side bounced back as quickly as possible. “You don’t get to cry; you get a six-day turnaround. We need to sit down, evaluate, get better, look at what roles we missed, what we can do better and start again,” he said. “I don’t think you can dwell on it. We’ve got to find the fixes, the critical few things we need to do. “If you’re off by 10 per cent at Super Rugby, it can look like a car crash and that’s what we saw. ” Wells could miss the Force’s home clash on Saturday with the winless Moana Pasifika due to HIA protocols, but said as a group, each player needed to take individual accountability for the loss. “70 points happens when you’re not mentally in the game consistently,” he said. “We’ve talked about for the last couple of weeks, to win at Super Rugby level and a professional sports level, it’s the will to win — it’s not necessarily technical, tactical all of the time, it’s ‘do you want it more than the other team’ and are you willing to do everything you can for your team?” The Force almost conceded a try within 90 seconds, but did find themselves 14-0 down inside seven minutes and despite working their way back into the game with a couple of tries in the first half to reduce the deficit to 22-13, they were outscored 49-7 in the final 44 minutes of the game. “You want to play the type of rugby you want to play, but we watched a little bit at the end of the first half and start of the second. ,” Cron said. “What that looks like is we don’t come off our defensive line, we give them time and space and if you give a team that can run time and space, you start to see holes open up. We need to work out what we got wrong around that defensive side of the ball. ” Sign up for our emails.