Intro:

Warren Gatland discusses his Wales side throwing away a 10 point lead to lose 21-16 against England in the Six Nations opener at the Millennium Stadium.

Script:

SOUNDBITE: (English) Warren Gatland, Wales coach:

"A good first half and obviously the second half, we've started poorly. It probably starts right at the start of the second half with a box kick, and put ourselves under pressure. England have kept the ball for four minutes and they end up scoring, and then we've ended up with a yellow card. So for the first 15/20 minutes of that second half we really put ourselves under a lot of pressure, and with turnovers as well. In fairness to England, they played well in that second half. But I thought we were okay and reasonably comfortable at half time, and they've come back strongly and played pretty well in that second half."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Warren Gatland, Wales coach:

"The way modern Test match rugby is, there's not a lot of space and if you can get a turnover from your kicking, which I thought we were pretty good at in the first half and in fairness to England, they were pretty good in the second half. We wanted to use a kicking game at.... some of the kicking game is an attacking weapon and I thought the early odd cross kick to Leigh Halfpenny when he's put the ball down, that's worked effectively."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Warren Gatland, Wales coach:

"A couple of lineouts. That's disappointing at this level. You've got to be accurate. Like I said, we've had an overthrow and we've had one that looked like a lack of communication. Apart from that, I thought you know, both teams had one or two turnovers at a lineout. But what I am concerned about, the number of scrum penalties against us and just making sure I get some clarity on that."