CARDIFF : Wales will not consider their autumn international series a failure if they lose to Australia on Saturday and suffer a third defeat in four tests, captain Ellis Jenkins said on Friday.
It is the last of four games on successive weekends at the Principality Stadium for the Welsh, who lost to New Zealand and South Africa before scrambling to beat Fiji 38-23 last weekend.
“A loss at the weekend definitely doesn’t make the campaign a failure. It’s easy in sport to get carried away with results but no one remembers the fact that South Africa lost games in 2018 before they won the World Cup in 2019,” Jenkins told reporters.
“It’s about looking at the process and what the end goal is. We want to win, particularly against Fiji and Australia, and in the South Africa game we were probably 10 minutes from being winners as well.
“It was a couple of things that we got wrong in that last 15 minutes that took the game away from us. If that hadn’t happened we’d be having a completely different conversation. It’s easy to catastrophise things based on results, but we try not to.”
Jenkins expects a tough Wallaby challenge as the Australians seek their first tour win after losing to Scotland and England.
“They play a bit differently to the teams we’ve faced so far, a lot of deception and ball movement and they’ve picked a very physical back row, ball carriers who will pose a test.
“But we’re focusing on being as accurate as we can, that’s probably what’s let us down a bit over the last couple of weeks.
“Defensively we’ve been pretty sound and hopefully we can put a bit more continuity together in attack that allows us to go through more phases and cause them problems.”
(Writing by Mark Gleeson in Cape Town; Editing by Shrivathsa Sridhar)
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