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Dewi Lake: Wales captain hopes to maintain position for autumn matches


Lake, who like Morgan missed the Six Nations due to harm, excelled on his return to the facet in the summertime, regardless of defeat towards South Africa at Twickenham and two losses towards the Wallabies.

“It was superb,” mentioned Lake.

“Any time you get to play on your nation, it is an honour.

“We’d have favored a consequence to go our method. I believe we should always have had it, particularly within the second Take a look at towards Australia.

“We outplayed them and have been a greater workforce, however a couple of expensive errors awarded them tries.

“The summer season on the entire was superb with the group of boys and the expertise I had being in Australia for the primary time.”

Wales have slipped to eleventh on the planet rankings and have misplaced 9 consecutive internationals.

“The general public are proper to need outcomes, that is why we play the sport and we needs to be placing a few of these groups away,” mentioned Lake.

“We’re not distant. A few of the rugby we created in Australia was good, we simply did not end it off.

“It is that final 5% we want now and the extra time we now have collectively, the higher we’ll get.

“However we won’t maintain utilizing it as an excuse for outcomes that ought to have gone our method.

“In some unspecified time in the future, we now have to start out profitable these video games and seeing optimistic outcomes.

“It is at all times going to be the identical message. We’d play good rugby but when we do not get outcomes, it would not matter.”

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