Jones - Wales must be ruthless

Fly-half Stephen Jones insists Wales have to be more clinical in their finishing.

Fly-half Stephen Jones insists Wales have to be more clinical in their finishing if they are to avoid a clean sweep by the major southern hemisphere nations.

The Six Nations champions have already lost to New Zealand and South Africa in successive weeks and face Australia on Saturday at the Millennium Stadium.

Jones - who won his 50th cap in the 33-16 loss to the Springboks last Saturday - said: "It's important for us that, if we create opportunities, we must finish them.

"We have to be ruthless because rugby at international level is very hard. You work to create something and, if you don't finish it, you are putting yourself under pressure.

"You are not going to create that many chances and they are not going to come along that often against good teams."

That is a theme taken up by Jones' British and Irish Lions' teammate Gareth Thomas.

"When we break defences, we have to finish it off," said the Toulouse fullback. "When we turn over ball, for some reason this autumn, we have been really relaxed about it.

"Teams have been attacking us from the full length of the pitch because, when we have turned ball over, everybody has kind of switched off.

"You saw in the Six Nations that we had hundreds of chances to score and, even though we didn't take them all, we took a couple when needed.

"For the next Six Nations, we have to go in thinking if we have one chance and don't get any points from it, that is a big downer for us."

As for the challenge provided by the Wallabies, Thomas added: "Now it is just time for us to concentrate on our own game and try to play the way we want to play.

"Obviously, we have to look at them and try to take away what we see as their strengths, but the most important thing is that we take ourselves to them rather than waiting to see what they have got for us."