However, Head Coach Jenkins stressed the need to look at the game in the context of the World Cup, and asked the fans to give his side time to put lessons learnt from the defeat into practice.

He said: "I'm hugely disappointed with the result. People back home are going to be totally unsatisfied but we've got to keep our heads up.

"We are a month away from the World Cup, and we've been given a hard lesson – but it's not impossible to come back from. I think we can take what we've learnt into the Argentina and France matches.

"Being competitive in the World Cup and reaching at least the quarter-finals is our priority at the moment, and this game helped us see how far we are along in that process."

However, Jenkins admitted there were very few positives that Wales could take out of the rout.

He said: "England dominated as a pack, they really put us under the hammer and there was nothing much we could do. We played with 29% of the ball again and you can't play Test rugby without having a share of possession.

"In the last 15 minutes we were completely out on our feet and could do little about the half-a-dozen tries that were easy run-ins. We were too undisciplined – we gave away far too many penalties and they really punished us with good kicks to the corners.

"However, there were a couple of phases where we put rugby together that showed that we could threaten them. When we had the ball, we showed glimpses of what we can offer."

In stark contrast, England No.8 and hat-trick hero Nick Easter said that he was delighted with his team's performance, and his own, which he said "could not have gone better".

"We had a real pasting in the pack last time we played Wales, and that motivated us for this game. It was a nice solid performance, from a personal and team point of view, and I guess it couldn't have gone better for me out there."