Evans looking ahead with Wales following a tough Six Nations

GEORGIA Evans is pleased with the improvement the Wales Women side showed in their final Six Nations game against Scotland and feels it’s time to reset and look forward.

Wales went down to a 27-20 in Glasgow and Evans, who was vicecaptain at Scotstoun, said: “The feeling in the camp is a positive one after Saturday’s performance.

“We still started off a bit rusty but the way we finished the game showed the extent of our heart and desire to do the jersey proud.

“Taking the positives from the game, we showed glimpses of what we can do, we just need to be more consistent so that we can perform for the full 80 and get those wings on the ball earlier.

“Overall the girls can be happy. I think we all dug deep with our performance against Scotland, everybody stepped up and did their roles well. The set-piece obviously let us down. We’ve worked on it a lot, but something didn’t click on that front. It’s something we’ll learn from and there’s always more to do.”

Saracens lock Evans believes the players also need to set some individual goals ahead of next year’s Rugby World Cup.

She said: “The World Cup is the pinnacle of everyone’s rugby career, we all really want to get there. I think now it’s about re-setting. It’s been an emotional campaign, it’s been a tough one but actually we can all go away from this knowing that we put a performance in to be proud of at the end.

“I think we will all go back to our clubs now, reset and aim to finish the rugby season on a high.

“Individually we’ve got to look at ourselves and really push forward to make sure that when we come back into camp we don’t start again – we need to start from where we left off on the weekend and we build on the performance rather than going back to the very beginning.

“There’s lots to look forward to, it will be exciting to see what happens next.”

Despite being beaten at Scotstoun, Wales fought until the final whistle and scored a pair of wellworked tries from Lisa Neumann and Caitlin Lewis to finish their campaign on a positive note.

Head coach Warren Abrahams and his staff now have time to dissect the Women’s Six Nations campaign before looking ahead at next year’s Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.

“It was a tough start to the Six Nations, but the biggest thing for me and the coaching team is that we’ve learned some incredible lessons,” he added.

“We’ve got some confirmation of where we are as a group and what we need to do. If we want to compete at this level we just have to iron out the details behind the scene. We can take a lot of positives from this performance to continue to build.

“If we want to play the way we want to play then we have to solve our set-piece problems. We’ll tidy them up. Our strength lies in the unstructured part of the game, but if you can’t get the set-piece go forward then you won’t have the freedom to play the game.”