Scotland coach Andy Robinson has branded his side's performance "unacceptable" after they fell to a 24-6 defeat against Wales.
Performance against Wales 'unacceptable', says Scotland coach
Scotland coach Andy Robinson has branded his side's performance "unacceptable" after they fell to a 24-6 defeat against Wales.
The hosts fell behind early on at Murrayfield and never recovered as Shane Williams and James Hook racked up the points to precious little response.
And after the match Robinson admitted that the better side had won and Scotland, who have now lost twice in a row to open their Six Nations campaign, made far too many mistakes.
"We made too many errors, particularly in that first 20 minutes," he said.
"If you make errors like that and give Wales the opportunities that we gave them... they grew in confidence, they grew in their physicality and ended up deserved winners.
Disappointed
"The guys are hurting pretty hard. Everybody's disappointed. That is unacceptable, what happened today."
Wales were reduced to 13 men at one point in the first half as Bradley Davies and Lee Byrne were both sin-binned but Scotland managed only a lone Dan Parks penalty when playing with the numerical advantage.
"When they had 13 men we didn't take our chances. We had enough ball in the opposition 22 to get those chances," Robinson said.
"We knocked on a couple of balls and in the second half as well at 16-6. Wales had opportunities, probably not as many as us, but they took them.
"We've gone back a couple of steps today. It's difficult to quantify, a lot will depend on how we respond in two weeks' time against Ireland."
Pleased
Wales coach Warren Gatland was pleased to come away with the win but thought his side played better when getting beaten by England in Cardiff last Friday.
"I thought we played better last week, we played really well, we were a bit unlucky," Gatland said.
"If you look at the two sides last week England came away as fantastic and we were rubbish. But if you looked at the stats they showed it was a very tight game.
"I thought we were clinical today, defended exceptionally well and thoroughly deserved to win. The boys fronted up and that's what it's about in sport at the highest level.
"Whether you are a player or a coach you will come under pressure and it's about showing character and responding to that and that what makes a man, people who love the challenge of having your backs to the wall.
"I thought the players could have easily lacked confidence as they have been under the pump but they continued to work really hard and front up. The performance needs to improve but the result was good."
