WALES coach Warren Gatland cuold hardly hide his disappointment and admitted his side had to stop “pressing the self-destruct button” after losing to France in the RBS Six Nations game at the Millennium Stadium last night.
“I’m proud of the second-half performance,” Gatland said.
“We were 20 points down, victims of our own intercepts, and we could have given it away but I’m proud of what we did in terms of coming back.
“The guys dug deep and put on a really good display in the second half.
“France never really threatened our line, they got two intercepts and kicked four penalties but never really got into our 22.
“We just have to stop pushing the self-destruct button. We have a few things to work on to make sure we don’t make critical mistakes, but if we hadn’t conceded soft tries in the first half it was a game for us to win.”
Wing Shane Williams added: “It was a bit of deja vu, the way we’ve started the last three games.
“It’s very frustrating, sometimes you get punished for trying to play rugby.
“We try to play rugby, we started positive but two intercepts made it very difficult for us. Sometimes we try to play too much and it was all catch-up in the second half again.”
