A defeat in their final home game of the 2023 Netball Superleague season left Saracens Mavericks head coach Camilla Buchanan hugely frustrated.

Despite a raucous crowd at the Hertfordshire Sports Village, the Hatfield side fell to a 57-54 loss after a late comeback ran out of time.

The boss said: "I struggle to be one of those coaches that looks for the positive moments straight away when we lose, and when we make some of the errors that we did.”

"Credit to Bath, they were a lot more clinical and I know that’s something they’ve been really working on.

"They starved us of ball and that was apparent. We’re a side that gets confidence from winning ball and we didn’t get enough of that.

"It’s not a fault from our defensive end; Bath definitely stepped it up and we weren’t able to match it."

Only two games remain, away to Manchester Thunder and London Pulse, in what was always going to be the perfect example of a season of transition

Buchanan added: "We were tested on our variety and our finish, and it boiled down to not being clinical.

"We’ll just have to take the hit.

"This group have had so many things that we’ve had to adjust this season and we can only fix so many things at a time.

"We’ll go away and look at what happened."