St George Illawarra coach Paul McGregor can’t nail down one specific reason his side has faltered recently with another loss to Parramatta on Sunday at Homebush.

“I thought we put ourselves under pressure for most of the day. It was five line breaks to one, to us, and we lost four tries to two,” McGregor said.

“It’s very disappointing because, as a group, we’ve gone from completing high and working hard for one another to just trying to score and putting ourselves under pressure.

“We’ve had a bit of distraction over the last couple of weeks with blokes in and out and we’ve had the bye but there’s no excuse there. We’ve got to be better.

“There’s a lot of blokes who care in that shed and sometimes when that happens you put yourself under too much pressure and you freeze a little bit.

“It’s not one thing, it’s a combination of a few.”

The Dragons next play Newcastle this Sunday at Kogarah with the Knights fresh coming off the bye.