Quins now playing for pride only

Harlequins will be playing for pride only in what remains of their European campaign after all hope of reaching the knockout stage of the Heineken Cup ended with a 24-7 defeat by Neath-Swansea Ospreys.

Chief executive Mark Evans was furious that his team gave away so many penalties which allowed Gavin Henson to grab all the points for the Welsh team with a superb kicking display at St Helen's yesterday.

With Castres and Munster dominating pool four, Quins have no chance of going through with just a draw at Castres their best result so far.

Evans said: "That's the worst we've played since the beginning of October. We didn't get our game going at all, we made a huge number of errors.

"They were the better team in the sense that they had more territory and we just could not get a grip on the game.

"It was disappointing because that was our worst display for a long time. We played well for six or seven weeks on the trot before this."