The Western Mail's Delme Parfitt picks over Saturday's England versus Wales clash.
"Warren Gatland cut a quietly optimistic figure in the aftermath of Saturday’s encounter at Twickenham.
Like his players, he expressed his dissatisfaction with having lost the game, of course he did.
And the grim news of Morgan Stoddart’s broken leg did cast a pall over everything, with the Scarlets man’s hopes of going to New Zealand ended in the cruellest of fashions when he was tackled, innocuously, by Delon Armitage shortly after half time.
However, you could tell from Gatland’s demeanour that he had also seen enough to provide him with encouragement going into the remaining two summer warm-up games and the World Cup beyond.
After completing his formal press duties, he stopped to chat over a cup of coffee with journalists. There was none of the stony-faced coldness that has accompanied some of the Welsh post-mortems of the last 18 months."
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