Wales will learn from Test series defeat against All Blacks - Gatland

Warren Gatland, the Wales coach, despite a 3-0 lopsided series which was won comfortably by the All Blacks, is feeling positive about the experience and some very important lessons his side got during its tour.

Gatland firmly believes the series will play a vital role in his team's development for the future.

Wales although managed to challenge the world champions in the first two Tests with 39-21 and 36-22 defeats respectively, but were handed a resounding 46-6 drubbing as a parting gift by coach Steve Hansen and his relatively new All Blacks side.

“It was a pretty disappointing third Test after all the positives that came out of the first two games. We started pretty well in Dunedin but New Zealand were superb in attack and we missed too many tackles."

Gatland, who was looking forward to the tour to improve his side's attacking play, was totally let down by his under-performing defence.

“We came on tour with a different mindset and wanting to evolve our game with some more attacking play. We normally pride ourselves on a 90% tackle completion rate but our defence has let us down. We’ll take lessons home with us and make sure we apply them when we next get together as a team.

“It has been a good experience for the players and the biggest lesson of all we learned is about collision dominance at the breakdown, how they accelerate into the contact area. It creates quick ball on attack and puts pressure on your defence.”

Gloucester flanker Ross Moriarty, has called upon his team to learn from their mistakes and be prepared to put up an improved performance in the autumn when Wales will once again come face-to-face with southern hemisphere sides.

“We have got to look at ourselves and work on the things we haven’t done well at. We will be looking forward to playing against southern hemisphere sides again in the autumn and putting into practice the lessons we have learned on this tour.”