OK.
I think you're the only one who thinks there are mitigating circumstances to nearly throwing away a 35 point lead in the last 20 minutes of the game, and looking like conceding a try every time the opposition got the ball, but a win's a win.
Just hope we don't finish a point behind bath in the table.
To be fair, we ended that game putting pressure on Bath and having repeat possessions in their 22, but generally yeah, we looked like conceding all the time for much of the final quarter of the game, because the best fly half in world rugby allied to Ollie Lawrence and Alfie Barbeary turns out to be an extremely potent threat when you have 13 people on the pitch and have made a bunch of changes reacting to a different picture.
Quins were responsible for being down to 13 in the first place so it's not like I'm saying that it happened by accident or anything, just that in the context of a match it's a huge difference from rocking up to the spurs stadium and playing like you don't give a toss from the first minute, with absolutely no justification for it. No huge lead causing complacency, no sudden disadvantage due to cards, no being caught on the hop by a combination of events. Just turning up and playing against a top side like we didn't want to be there, from the first minute.
THAT was what unacceptable looks like.
So no, I don't think this was anything like that. I think it downplays just how bad last week was. This was what happens when you think you've won the game already and then a bunch of stuff happens very quickly to put you in an extremely dangerous situation with very limited ways of changing what's happening.
If nothing else, I hope it drives home the point about how stupid yellow cards can cost a team, and how compound errors can throw away an hour's work.
