Grant voices frustration at lack of game-time

We bring you the match reaction from game three between England and New Zealand. Black Ferns captain Victoria Grant says her side need more support to prepare for next year's series while England coach Gary Street says his side will continue to improve.

New Zealand captain Victoria Grant:(pictured)

I was very proud of the girls and how they got up for this last test. We threw everything we could at them and in that last ten minutes we had chances in their 22 but there were too many errors which was frustrating.

Our preparation was a big factor in losing those two first games. We havent played in over a year and our last rugby at all was in August so we just havent had enough time together. We werent prepared enough to play a team who did have that preparation and it showed, especially in that first test. We need to come back next year for these games a lot more prepared.

We would like to play more games but even if we could get more camps into our schedule it would be better than what we did this year. We could play internal games if we needed to, but we didnt have any of that this year. We did our own training in our own regions and we didnt come together till two days before we flew out it is just not enough. We have also lost a huge number of experienced players from the World Cup so it was always going to be tough.

The positives for us are probably that we finally had a chance to put out some young players in test match rugby but we cannot come and play a top team like England with no game time and expect to win anymore. We went into the last World Cup probably with the most experience we ever had and now we have lost a lot of that experience and we are just rebuilding so we need that game time and those weekends together to make positive steps forward.

Gary Street, England head coach.

It has been very tough playing again in another test and perhaps winning the series already took the edge off a little but we stuck at it. We went behind and showed a lot of character we are undefeated after three games and I have got to be pleased with that.

We have made huge strides over the last year and its just two months now to our first Six Nations game. We will enjoy this win but we will be back looking at that competition pretty soon.

We have unearthed some fantastic talent in the last few weeks and we will move on positively. We want the game to improve all the time and when people watch it to see a high standard of the game. The more matches all teams play the better but we can only look after ourselves. There was some great rugby played in this series and we have had some great support from the public.

I also want to pay tribute our 7s girls who were out in Dubai this week. We watched it this morning in the hotel and to watch them beat the world champions Australia with such a young team was heroic. Michaela (Staniford) played here against New Zealand on Tuesday and scored a hatrick this morning in Dubai and to get to the final is a source of real pride.