At the conclusion of the Six Nations, when all the raw emotion has fizzled out, Warren Gatland will surely find a quiet hour or two at his family home in Hamilton, New Zealand, to ponder what more needs to be done to get his Wales team back on track.
This Six Nations has been a jarring experience for Gatland, a coach who is more accustomed to competing for silverware than propping up the table, with Wales a country mile off the level required to compete with the best sides in the world later this year.
In Gatland's defence, he only had a handful of training sessions to try to fix a side which had lost at home to both Italy and Georgia in the past 12 months, while he was also forced to assemble an almost brand new coaching team.