BATH prop David Wilson admits England won’t be pressing the panic button just yet despite slipping to a fifth straight international loss at the weekend as they crashed 31-28 to South Africa at Twickenham.

Wilson has been one of the success stories of the autumn internationals to date, anchoring the scrum expertly against New Zealand and South Africa – and even scoring his maiden Test try against the Springboks at the weekend.

Before the autumn internationals, England boss Stuart Lancaster spoke about the need for his side to put down a sizeable marker ahead of next year’s World Cup by turning Twickenham into a fortress and bloodying the noses of the world’s best sides.

With games against Samoa and Australia still to come there is time for Lancaster to turn around his miserable autumn and build some much-needed momentum ahead of next year’s Six Nations.

And despite the recent criticism, Wilson insists it’s not all doom and gloom for England and it’s simply correctable small percentage swings that are seeing Lancaster’s men on the wrong side of narrow defeats.

“I’m upset after the scoreline at the weekend,” said Wilson. “We were competing for most of the game and we did let it slip a bit and that needs correcting.

“But I think if you are competing against a world class side like South Africa, that's the main thing, it’s important that you are close, we were just the wrong side of the scoreline I guess.

“You're always going to be disappointed when you lose games, especially by close margins, it just comes down to small things, what else can you do, really? It's just one thing here or there and it's about getting them right.

“I think we are ticking a lot of the boxes, we obviously have to remain positive, and I think we are doing a lot of things right, the foundations are in place.

“South Africa is the most physical team in the world, they're one of the best in the scrum, one of the best in the driving lineout, and I think we competed well with them. Hopefully on another day we can win.”

The tables appeared to have turned against South Africa in the space of three second-half minutes at the weekend when the Red Rose replied with bulldozing tries by Wilson and Ben Morgan that were founded on forward power.

But a Dylan Hartley yellow card midway through the second half proved costly as South Africa regained the initiative to go on and win the game. “We got that try, then Tom Wood made a break and then we pushed them over and Ben Morgan scored, and we got a lot of momentum from that, emotionally anyway,” added Wilson.

“It was real good play, we had them on the back foot, and I felt we did really well in that period of the game – we were unable to sustain it though.

“We now just need to perform like that for longer periods and be on the right side of the scoreline on 80 minutes.

“I felt we took them on in good areas, we did well in the lineout, our scrum was decent, but we just need to put them all together and perform well for 80 minutes now.”

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