Jack Nowell: England must learn lessons 'quickly' before Six Nations and World Cup

England look Japan astatine Twickenham connected Saturday pursuing decision to Argentina

England indispensable halt repeating the aforesaid mistakes oregon hazard failing astatine adjacent year's Six Nations and Rugby World Cup, vice-captain Jack Nowell has warned.

Nowell, 29, says England request to beryllium learning their lessons "quite quickly".

"The frustrating happening from the play is they are the aforesaid messages we person been saying implicit the past twelvemonth oregon so," helium told BBC 5 live.

"Scotland distant [in February], the punishment number mislaid america the game. Australia archetypal Test [in July], the punishment number fto them backmost into the game. These are the lessons we request to beryllium learning and learning rather quickly."

The Exeter backmost added: "Before we cognize it we volition travel into the Six Nations and you can't suffer a crippled past to footwear yourself forward. It's the aforesaid successful the World Cup, you can't beryllium losing games successful your group.

"We request to commencement learning now."

However, Nowell, who has taken accrued enactment responsibilities this campaign, says a gathering astatine the commencement of the week has helped wide the aerial earlier Saturday's crunch crippled with Japan astatine Twickenham.

"It is ever a concern, but we aren't looking astatine each different reasoning wherefore aren't we winning these games - we cognize wherefore we are not winning," helium explained.

"So it's up to america players to ain it a small spot more, but we had immoderate bully conversations astir it yesterday with a fewer boys holding their hands up knowing that it's not bully capable for the team."

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'Japan merit respect'

Meanwhile, Nowell says England cannot spend to instrumentality Japan lightly, arsenic was the lawsuit the past clip the teams met successful 2018.

England trailed the Blossoms 15-10 astatine half-time earlier rallying to triumph 35-15, though the likes of Zach Mercer and Alex Lozowski haven't played for their state since.

Japan went connected to scope the World Cup quarter-finals successful 2019, taking the scalps of Scotland and Ireland successful the process.

"A batch of things happened successful that archetypal fractional and possibly arsenic a squad we didn't springiness Japan the respect they deserve," said Nowell, who started astatine outside-centre that day.

"You person got to springiness them the respect and [you can't] fto them play the mode they privation to play - which is beauteous overmuch what we did successful the archetypal half.

"But astatine the aforesaid clip it is not astir conscionable trying to header with what they person got, it's astir letting them header with what we've got.

"We can't conscionable hold for the scoreboard [to beryllium against us] - we person to beryllium brave capable to person a go."

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