"We would have loved to win all three games, and we're disappointed we only got one, but it's about making small improvements at the moment," said Sean in . "Some were critical, but we beat Samoa and I would be happy with three-point wins right now. And people came to Murrayfield worried we'd lose 70 points to the All Blacks. We're not celebrating a defeat, but there's a big difference between 70 points and 29.
"I have learned a lot from these games. For example, we were too stand-offish against New Zealand and realised too late they weren't unbeatable. We were actually annoyed at the end to think how it might have gone had we played better in the first half. But that experience is helpful as we go forward."
Sean added: "Andy Henderson said to me that he had enjoyed this autumn Test series, whereas last year it was very stressful. Remember a lot of us only started playing Test rugby in the past year or so, and the longer we are together the more we will learn, develop and gel. We lost a lot of players this year: Tom Smith, Gordy Bulloch, Stuart Grimes, Nathan Hines, Ben Hinshelwood. Scott Lawson has two caps to Gordy's 70, and that is a massive amount of international experience.
"It takes time, but it's definitely improving. If we can take the confidence from this game and play for a whole 80 minutes why can't we beat teams in the Six Nations Championship?"
Sean also had his own view on the first-half "touchdown" by his former Glasgow team-mate, Scott Lawson, that was ruled out after TV replays proved inconclusive.
"If they'd had a Sean-cam, they would have seen it was a try," he said. "I was right on top of them but obviously it didn't show on any of the angles they had."
As for his exhilirating run from his own goal-line all the way to the New Zealand 22 before he was cut down by the retreating All Black skipper Tana Umaga, Sean conceded that he had run out of gas.
"I was probably a bit tired from all the rucking we'd done trying to score in the second half, and they're pretty quick boys," he said.