No excuse for poor tour - Ritchie

04 September 2014Stuart Lancaster's side slumped to a 3-0 series defeat having set out with the aim of toppling the All Blacks over the three Tests.

Fixture congestion robbed them of their Aviva Premiership finalists for the Auckland opener, hamstringing their efforts from the start.

Ironically, it was the closest they came to threatening a rare victory over the All Blacks, although they impressed in the first half of the second Test before being blown away in Hamilton.

"We lost three matches so I'm frustrated and disappointed," Ritchie said.

"We don't want to go out there…