Gethin Jenkins wants improvement – Rugby News Update
Gethin Jenkins, the 31-year-old Cardiff Blues and Wales prop is still upset with the manner of loss in the second test against Australia.
Wales are currently on tour in the southern hemisphere to play Australia in a three-match test series but having lost the opening two matches, they have pride to play for at Sydney in the last game of the series.
Australia won 25 – 23 in the dying seconds of the game after Mike Harris scored a penalty kick. Wales are still looking for that elusive win that will break their jinx of not winning on Wallabies soil since 1969.
Prior to the series, the Welsh were in supreme confidence, hoping that they could win the series. Jenkins was of a similar opinion, stating that he believed that they could have won the series, but having lost it, he does feel that the team can take many
positives.
Wales came to Australia on the back of winning the 2012 Six Nations Grand Slam, and the mood in the camp prior to the series was one of confidence. However, Wales has to look at the way they can improve, pick themselves up before the third test, as it offers
them their last chance of winning that game, and most importantly to avoid a series clean sweep.
Jenkins, speaking about the second test said, "Last weekend was devastating and we were disappointed in ourselves that we couldn't finish off the game. We had some nice late wins in the season and now we know what it's like to be on the end of a losing game."
And he felt that the manner of loss was similar to what he had experienced in the 2009 British and Irish Lions tour, when they had lost in similar circumstances.
"It was a little bit of deja vu in Melbourne after the Lions. A last-minute kick and the series gone," Jenkins said. "We should have seen the game out in Melbourne. With only two minutes on the clock we should have done something a bit different...”
The prop has played 89 times for Wales, starting 61 of those games, and coming on as a substitute a further 28 times.
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