Gordon D’Arcy

You look at, say, when Eddie Jones was struggling with England, what did he do?

He brings in

mitchell and they focus on defense and it gives them all a very clear focus to go on to and you get an awful lot of confidence when an area of the game is working and then you try to layer stuff on so do you look where this team was maybe four or five years ago you can see where the confidence is coming from and now the challenge is that you have to be able to add those layers onto it and those wrinkles onto it but that line break and the offload the

I was joking with my kids over the weekend, and it was like, I did all the hard bits well, and then I just cocked up the scoring the goal at the end.

So they did actually all the hard bits, which, you know, you'd be sitting down there going, that is something now we can replicate.

But the easy bit was scoring the try, and that's the bit that you needed to convert.

Yeah, it's like what I said, though.

You're going in as the underdog.

So you need everything to go your way and rarely does it.

So there was opportunities.

We'll look down at it.

And it depends whether you're a glass half full person or glass half empty.

How they channel that into the next room to say, we can make that step to being more...

dangerous with the ball in hand we mean to be less predictable but we have to take opportunities when they when they arrive so i think what the game shows is the capacity is there for it and now you need to start seeing it on the pitch and this is one of the challenges for the women's game in the men's game you know where the next round of games is going to come from you've got the certainty around it you've got you know the whole thing is planned out

And even the way they played, you would say it was playing to frustrate France and to try and score.

And, you know, and you can almost see that it nearly worked because, you know, let's say those three tries actually are converted.

What difference do they have to respond?

We know they could respond, but you've created that what if situation.

I think the challenge now for them is to kick on in those games and the little flickers of attacking flair that we saw, making sure that they come out and that they continue to do the hard bits well and get the easy bits done as well.

Yes and no.