I'll be without nine internationals on Sunday, but I'm trying to bring opportunity and structure and get players to play for their country.

I've still got to try to build the boys up for an important game against Borders.

When I was assistant coach of Harlequins, I came to Castres and got walloped, so I've seen what they are capable of.

Although I'm obviously not pleased that we didn't win the game, particularly when we came so close, I'm really proud of the team.

We're not dismayed in any way, we're building but it's a slow build right now.

We were on the ropes at 29-10 behind, and the fact we were able to come back from that was largely thanks to our talented backs.

But we're going in after a better game in Edinburgh and we have Mike Owen, Gareth Cooper and Steve Jones back.

It's a massive blow to lose Gareth and with injuries we already have we are now without a right wing.

I always come back to one point. Doing something is always better than doing nothing. For instance if someone is not breathing, they are dead and you can't be any worse than that.