Wales wing Rio Dyer admitted that it was disappointing Wales fell short in Australia and missed out on proving to others that they ‘will be a very good team’. Warren Gatland’s side fell to a 2-0 series loss after defeats in Sydney and Melbourne, but they arguably could and should have won the second Test after coming back from an early 17-point deficit.
And for Dyer, who crossed for a late score at AAMI Park, he believed that Wales weren’t far away from two victories that would have given their critics something to think about.
“It is frustrating for a lot of us going on from the result in Sydney,” said Dyer. “We were in the game at 60 minutes and then letting go of it.
“It is the same thing happening. For the last two weeks we have been working hard, non-stop in training. We wanted this win, to make history as a team and go back to Wales with a win but unfortunately annoyingly we haven’t got it.
“It is trying to get that fluidity into the game and that worked well for us. That ball movement and getting width and the ball into players’ hands trying to create something.
“It would be nice to do it a little bit more. Even though we have not got the results in the last two weeks some of the stuff that we have put together has been good.
“If we can put an 80-minute performance together, keep our discipline and not give away easy tries, we would have been able to get the two wins comfortably and prove to others we will be a very good team.
“It is just those little errors that didn’t help us throughout the game. It has been a very long season for a lot of us and probably feels as if it has been two seasons in one.
“A lot of us haven’t really had too much time off and played week in week out. Even though we have been non-stop you can see the boys have giving 100% and that just shows what sort of team we are.”
