Coach Shaun Wane and captain George Williams reflect on England's 34-18 win against Samoa.
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00:00To be honest, we've never mentioned revenge, we've not showed that game, I've said it enough myself, so it's just all about winning this test match to be honest.
00:09And that's what it's based on, and we'll just walk away with no mention of revenge.
00:16What do you feel needs to improve, Shane? You said there were bits that need to improve, what sort of things are you talking about?
00:22Yeah, our completion, the way we ended our sets, we made a few errors with the ball and a couple of penalties were a bit to give it.
00:30And I shot and they dropped out and they got the ball back, so just thinking how that can be easily fixed, but that's something we're in control of.
00:38I thought that's a good thing then, because they're easily fixed.
00:41Oh yeah, yeah, we did mention that in there on the judge.
00:45You started well didn't you Sean, kicking to the corners, pinning them in deep, did you maybe go away from that in the first half?
00:50Yeah, I thought we did. I thought a lot of good things worked for us in that first half, and we went away in that second quarter.
00:57But they're a good team, they've got some good individuals and they're obviously well coached, so I knew we weren't going to get that wrong way all the time.
01:08They have too much talent in their team.
01:10Obviously lots of great individual performances, but how was it to see Hervey back and playing like that?
01:16Yeah, he played well, really well.
01:19And back against the green, through the middle, he's a great talent.
01:23I don't know how to describe that, he was a good director there.
01:26George, what was going through your mind when you were facing down the Samoans pre-match and Mikey Lewis getting involved as well?
01:32Yeah, just looking forward to it to be honest.
01:34I think it's something that we've done over the last few years, just standing on that half way line and fronting up.
01:41Every time you play Samoa, they do that.
01:44We see that as our territory and we didn't want to let them come over it before the start of the game.
01:50Just a good starter for us, a good mentality fix and gets us ready for the start of the game, I'd say.