That hasn't changed, but it has just given us more ammunition to have a go at them.

As [Ewen] was telling us, it's very hard to build a reputation and it's very easy to lose it. Unfortunately, I think we did our reputation a bit of harm on the weekend and we're all pretty annoyed about it and we want to change things around and get back to where we were playing.

A lot of the front rowers have gotten bigger over the off season, Bill Young and Nic Henderson have both put on five or six kilos and I have put on a couple of kilos.

With the change of coaching staff there will certainly be a different focus than in previous years.

It's obviously very possible that, deep down, it's shaken my confidence. I've definitely taken a big blow mentally.

It was a different scale to a World Cup, I only learned that last time. But then again, they [the IOC] didn't exactly treat me very well.