Wales need time to adapt to their new coach, says Alun Wyn Jones

The defending champions never lost three successive Six Nations matches under Warren Gatland but, with Twickenham next, it could happen in Wayne Pivac’s first campaignThe Six Nations launch is an occasion when hope tends to outscrummage expectation but Alun Wyn Jones was one at this year’s event who did not allow himself to be transported by fancy. The 12-year reign of Warren Gatland, when a success-starved nation was transported back to the 1970s, had ended 10 weeks before and his successor, Wayne Pivac, was coming to terms with replacing a legend. Related: Wales expect to have Liam Williams …