Highlights: England 19-26 Wales

Tom Shanklin Wales centre

Listening to some pundits, "Sir" Warren Gatland may as well quit as Wales coach now!

A historic victory in England is a dream start for Warren in his first game, for some it doesn't get much better, but thankfully the Welsh mentality of 'as long as we beat the English' is now a thing of the past.

It never ceases to amaze me what a difference 80 minutes can make in Welsh rugby

Of course Saturday's first victory at Twickenham for 20 years was special.

But it will count for nothing if we do not develop as a team and fail to make a big impact in the remainder of this Six Nations tournament.

Don't get me wrong, we'll certainly enjoy the moment as glory in the old enemy's back yard has been a very long time in coming.

But the Welsh boys remain pragmatic as there is a very long way to go in this Six Nations.

If we don't perform against Scotland and Italy in our next two games in Cardiff then our heroics against England will be quickly forgotten.

Now we must train harder and want victory even more because our Six Nations rivals would have watched how we performed against England and realise they will have to be at their very best to beat us.

Maybe England under-estimated us a little but we deserve huge credit.

We showed great fighting spirit, heart and commitment to drag ourselves back from 19-6 down to win at such a notoriously tough ground.

Little incidents change major games.

If James Hook and Huw Bennett had not prevented Paul Sackey grounding the ball as the England winger dived over on the stroke of half-time we could have been dead and buried.

I was surprised how early both Gethin Jenkins and I came on. We had just gone 19-6 down with five minutes gone in the second half.

But let me get this straight, I'm not claiming any credit for the win - I'll leave that to Gethin!

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I'm sure there were plenty of sore heads in Wales the morning after the night before and I was bombarded with drunken phone calls from mates.

But there was no party at Wales team HQ, we must keep a collective clear head as we prepare for Scotland.

However, I must confess we were allowed one celebratory drink at the after-match dinner at Twickenham...surely no-one can deny us that?!

Yet from such a courageous victory, comes expectation and that is something this team must learn to deal with.

It never ceases to amaze me what a difference 80 minutes can make in Welsh rugby.

Last week Welsh rugby fans still felt a little disillusioned from our poor showing in the World Cup - and you could say, who could blame them?

No one gave us a hope against England, who are World Cup finalists remember, but one victory later and everyone has started talking about us winning Grand Slams in a possible repeat of 2005. Steady on.

It makes me laugh that Welsh rugby is either up in the clouds or in the depths of despair, there never seems to be a happy medium.

We'll now be expected to demolish Scotland at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday but they are a very good team and cannot be taken lightly.

We must use the confidence from our England victory for the remainder of the campaign but not allow it to transform into arrogance.

And knowing this bunch of lads, there is no danger of that.

*Tom Shanklin was speaking to BBC Sport Interactive's Peter Shuttleworth