English hooker Jamie George assured Wednesday that the XV de la Rose, which must face Fiji on Sunday in the quarter-final of the Rugby World Cup, would be “very different” from the team which struggled to beat Samoa in the last match hen (18-17).
“Last weekend the content of the match was not good enough, it was mediocre,” the Englishman told the press.
“We lacked energy, it was probably inexcusable. Is it better that it happened then? Yes. Are we going to learn from this? Absolutely.”
“The England team will be very different on Sunday”, in Marseille against Fiji, who beat the English for the first time in the two teams’ last World Cup preparation match, on August 26 at Twickenham (30 -22).
George insisted the England team, who trained injury-free on Wednesday, were fully focused on this match.
“The quarter-final of a World Cup is exactly where we want to be, and next week we want to be in the semi-final and so on,” added the Saracens hooker.