Wayne Pivac Q&A: The players who impressed me and what the future holds for Alun Wyn Jones

Yeah I’m a little frustrated with the scoreline at the end, disappointed with that. But, as we said on the pitch afterwards, I’m definitely not disappointed with the effort that has gone in over the last six weeks.

We came here with a goal, to try to win the series and we were serious about that. It wasn’t just talk. The players worked really well together, they came together well and we’ll take a lot of positives out of that. I’m obviously pleased to get the history last week.

But this week, there were certainly moments where the pressure that South Africa applied paid dividends for them. I’m referring to the exit charge down, putting ourselves under pressure in our own 22.

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Then there were a couple of attacking situations when it was 17-14 in the last quarter of the game. There was a not straight and an overthrow. We’ll learn from that.

In all, I’m pleased with the tour itself but disappointed with the scoreline.

You never like to lose players at the end of the week but we lost Gareth to a fitness test in the latter part of the week and Taulupe just felt his side. It was an injury that he picked up in the first Test and he just gutsed it out for an 80 minute display in the second Test.

But it just took its toll on him in the warm-up. He did the right thing and pulled out. Full credit to Josh Navidi, who was on the bench one minute and then starting, literally minutes before going out for the anthem.

I thought he did very well, reacted well. As did Taine Basham coming off the bench.

Yes I do. If you look at the first Test, there is probably one or two moments we look back on and think ‘if only’. The Louis