Win or lose made no real difference to me (although a win would have been good for their confidence), but how they played was vitally important.
Some good signs in the first half, but equally, far too many familiar 2020 signs in the second half.
I don’t want to cherry pick one player, but Isaako being terribly out of position, twice in a row for tries, was what really seemed to start the rot.
If we didn’t get the spoon last year by way of being absolutely terrible in second halves, it wouldn’t be so worrying. But you could replay that second half to just about anyone and they’d think it was from 2020.
It seems there is still lots of work to be done to avoid a repeat of 2020.