Winters ready for battle

Roy Winters believes England must "fight to the death" in Test rugby's critical breakdown area when they face South Africa at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday.

England's failure to keep possession in contact cost them dear last weekend as the Springboks posted a record 58-10 victory.

Winters, who made his Test debut at Vodacom Park, said: "South Africa are obviously very physical at the breakdown, so our actual presentation of the ball has got to be up to scratch and then we have got to stop the turnovers that killed us last Saturday."

He added: "You tend to get the occasional big pack in the Guinness Premiership that exerts a similar sort of pressure, but the difference I've noticed is that it is there for 80 minutes.

"It doesn't come in spurts, it is just there constantly, and every breakdown you have to fight to the death.

"You look at four or five tries we conceded, and they were from our own mistakes. If we do make a mistake, we've got to react into a defensive mode straightaway and work hard.

"Looking at those tries, they were very straightforward run-ins. In my eyes, South Africa didn't have to work very hard for them.

"Whereas you can get away with it for a split second in the Premiership, reacting and getting up off the floor, if you walk for those couple of seconds as you might in a Premiership game, then you are going to get punished."