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Last Updated: Monday, 13 March 2006, 12:19 GMT
Josh Lewsey's column

Josh Lewsey
Josh Lewsey
England full-back

I have played in games before where we have been absolutely stuffed, at club and international level.

I don't think Sunday's defeat was quite as bad, for example, as a couple of the performances on tour in Australia and New Zealand two years ago.

But considering we went over to Paris hoping to win the game, it is a big kick in the teeth.

Mike Tindall puts his hands on his knees during England's defeat
Mike Tindall was one of five England players to suffer with a stomach bug
We let ourselves down enormously and there is not a lot to say really. It hurts.

I am sure there will be repercussions after a result like that.

I don't know if there will be changes to the team, we will have to wait and see.

We have got a few meetings today (Monday) and I am sure a lot of the problems will be highlighted.

But when you play a game of rugby like that you tend to know what the issues are.

Things just didn't go our way, not just in terms of our execution and the errors we made, but a lot of little things.

There was basically silence in the dressing room afterwards.

Credit to France - they played well. We congratulated them at the dinner afterwards and then left.

We just wanted to get back to England as soon as possible and try to switch off from rugby, but I had a fairly restless night.

A few players had a stomach bug before the game and obviously it affected their individual performances - you can't play at 100% if you are not well.

But if you highlight that you are looking for excuses, and we don't want to go down that route.

I don't think that would be the correct or honest thing to do if you have any integrity.

We need to look at what went wrong and sort things out, and I am sure we will rectify that.

We have to be positive for Saturday's game against Ireland and try to get a result out of that now.



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