Wales slipped to a first ever defeat to Georgia as a disappointing 2022 for Welsh rugby reached a new low.
The 13-12 loss has seen Wayne Pivac face increasing questions over his future as Wales coach.
Here's everything he said afterwards...
Just how did that defeat happen?
"We’ve had a quick chat in the changing room after the game. Everyone is disappointed.
"We’ll go away and review everything, from preparation to the game itself, and we will leave no stone unturned in the review process."
It seemed that you couldn't get any momentum in the second half?
"We felt we went OK in the first half. It wasn't perfect, but we created a couple of opportunities. We certainly got into the 22 and created some attacking moments and kicked possession away.
"We felt we could hurt them by building phases. Second half, we had no continuity. We were probably second-best in a lot of the collisions and the aerial game. And we were certainly on the receiving end of the referee at times."
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Are you convinced you can turn it around?
"We’ve done it before. Unfortunately, we’ve had to do it one time too many, from my point of view.
"It's not a nice place to be. We've had a quick chat in the changing room. Seven days is a long time in rugby. We’ll leave no stone unturned.
"We'll look at our own performance as a coaching group in terms of the working week, and then look at the game and pull that to bits. What we need to do is, when the working week starts, review this game quickly and prepare for a different opponent in Australia quickly. We have to make sure we get the performance we're happy with and proud of."
Are you convinced you can turn it around against Australia?
"Every time you lose a game, it leaves a scar, doesn't it. We're in the game to win Test matches.
"Next week is no different. We know we have them in our pool. We need a big week and a very strong performance."
What do you do in terms of selection for next week?
"We’ll certainly go through this game and see how players came through it. We've had some players who were not available or rested. We will throw them all in the mix and come up with a side that we think will get the job done."
Was this worse than the defeat to Italy?
"They’re both bad results. I'm not going to sit here and say one is worse than the other.
"They are not performances that we are proud of as a group. We want to look at what's ahead of us and that's Australia in seven days' time. That's what our focus has to be."
You've claimed before that the squad get better the longer they're together, so what happened here?
"We’ve been together for an extra week, in terms of conditioning we are improving. But we have to pull apart why we didn’t bring the energy on the field today, particularly in that second half."
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Are you confident you will be coach at the World Cup and can be a contender there?
"You’re seeing a lot of results that are going against the formbook and ours was one of those. Where you're going with that question, you probably want to ask someone else.
"As far as I'm concerned, I’ll be here rolling the sleeves up, starting first thing in the morning, like all the other coaches in the group. We'll get together on Sunday night and we’ll formulate the plan for the week.
"We’re here to do a job and we're totally focused on building towards the World Cup. This is a set-back. We’re not hiding away from that. We're not proud of that result. Clearly, we'll have a big working week and see how we go next week."
Do you believe your position is under threat?
"Again, that’s a question for other people, I would guess."
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