“As I say, we were happy with the way the first half had gone and felt going into half-time we’d carried well, we’d got forward momentum, but we didn’t achieve that at all in the second half.
“The players are obviously very disappointed but next Saturday is a cup final and that’s the way we’ve got to look at it and prepare. There are a few things we’ve got to tidy up.
“It’s 1-1 and South Africa put a huge amount of emotion into that game so now we’ve got that chance next week to hopefully secure the series win.”
“It’s not long after the game and we will do a proper review of the match and look at individuals to see whether we do need to make some changes ahead of the final Test.
“I was happy with that first half performance and thought we were getting some reward out of that but we just didn’t get the bounce of the ball or anything in that second half.
“We weren’t able to create momentum and the game was very slow in terms of how often the clock was stopped and they did a good job managing that by slowing the game down.
“It was frustrating for us as it was difficult to get that rhythm because of how stop-start it was. That’s something we’ll look at next week, how we can get more tempo in the game.
“We were happy with our carrying the first half. The way South Africa defend and rush up is tough and there were a couple of opportunities where we should have put the ball through the hands.
“We could have looked to exploit that more and even on penalty advantages, they did a good job of not giving us that chance to play by slowing the ball down and going back for the penalty.
“We’ve just got to be aware of that and take advantage of that situation.”
