Wayne Pivac Q&A: The emerging Wales leader who took full responsibility as we looked more like the team I know

Wales got their Six Nations campaign back on track with a gritty 20-17 victory over Scotland at the Principality Stadium.

There will have been a lot of soul-searching at the team's Vale Resort base this week after being outmuscled by Ireland in Dublin in round one.

But they righted a number of wrongs in Cardiff and this is what head coach Wayne Pivac made of it all:

I was very pleased, obviously, that we got the win. The boys put a lot of work in during the week.

Clearly, we weren’t happy with the performance last week. I think in a lot of the areas that the players themselves addressed, they backed the talk up with what was a pretty solid performance in all the areas we wanted to improve in.

The three-point win – we’ll take that.

Yeah, clearly. In terms of forwards, for a start, your tight five players pride themselves on the set piece and the contact area.

We didn’t quite get it right last week and there was a big improvement this week. That enabled Dan [Biggar] to get a lot of front foot ball and we were able to put them under more pressure.

He would have learned a lot from that experience. I thought he did well.

The whole week has been a great experience for him. The ride in on the bus, the whole nine yards.

I’m really pleased for somebody like that. Not only Jac, but also someone like Alex Cuthbert coming back for his 50th international.

Then Dan and Jonathan Davies get 100 internationals. It’s just a special time in the dressing room when you can celebrate those milestones, but with a win. It’s very important.

Definitely. The disappointment was evident from every single person in the squad last week.

I’ve known these boys long enough now to know that wasn’t the Wales team that we know. There was a big