JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH: LYNN BLASTS DISPLAY AS WALES OPEN IN GRIM FASHION

WALES Women's head coach Sean Lynn told his players their performance was not good enough after they suffered a thrashing at the hands of Scotland in the opening game of the World Cup.

- STEFFAN THOMAS Sports writer [e-mail]

Lynn's side were outclassed throughout but the Wales boss will be extremely disappointed at the porous nature of the defence.

Wales' tackling was nonexistent at times as Scotland ran riot in the opening game of the tournament, leaving Lynn's side with an uphill battle if they want to reach the quarterfinals with one of the competition favourites Canada also in their pool.

"I've just said to the players that's just not good enough," Lynn told the BBC.

"We said that we wanted to be physical and Scotland, fair play to them, they just bullied us off the park, especially at the breakdown.

"You can't start both halves with them scoring tries.

"In the second half then having a sin-bin when we could have been in the game. Some of the girls came off the bench and gave some impact but that's just not good enough."

Lynn slammed Wales' lack of physicality and told his players they must start delivering.

"That's somewhere where we thought we could get some gains into this game but obviously we didn't and Scotland did," he said.

"I said to the girls, we can't keep saying we're going to be a hard team to beat because that ain't good enough.

"We showed some good moments but our physicality and some skill accuracy wasn't there.