All this after Dan Parks’ boot had given Andy Robinson’s men, buoyed by their summer success in Argentina, an early lead.

But with world champions South Africa next up, Brown said: “We didn’t do ourselves justice – a lot of people paid good money to watch the game and we didn’t put in a performance to be proud of.

“We’ve got to bounce back – we owe it to our fans, ourselves the nation and that’s our challenge now – to put in a performance and try and get a win.

“The boys are feeling fairly low because our defence got too tight at times, we were falling off tackles and that will always be punished by a team as good as the All Blacks.”