It was a very poor first half. We were just defending all the time and we were told that we had to play more and put them under pressure in the second half and we did that very well.

We didn't play (well) last week against Scotland but we won.

I got to like the English. They feel the same animosity towards us that we feel towards them, but they don't speak of it.

The rain changed many things. We decided to spread the play out wide but the rain hampered our intentions.

Last year, we were exceptional in the way we raised our game with Wasps and Leicester in our group.