The defeat is a huge setback for his team considering they still have to cross the Tasman Sea for clashes against the Chiefs and the Crusaders on their Australasian tour.
Again‚ curiously‚ he stressed that his team does not want to be defined by the number of matches they win.
"We lost 13 guys up-front in the last year. The loosehead was 20 years old. The No 8 is 20 and those are the guys we are blooding. In their last two visits to the Australian capital the Lions had more experience in their line-up and came away with victory. On Saturday however‚ defensive lapses cost De Bruin’s side dearly."That is a definite work-on for us‚" he said about his team’s leaky defence."Every chance they had they took. We had chances and we didn’t take them.
De Bruin is a glass half-full kind of bloke and amid the wreckage of another defeat he extricated something he believes worth salvaging.
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