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Mears: We must improve in the scrum
Author: Andrew Allen
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19 November 2008 - 8:53 AM
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Lee Mears admits England will have to step their game up if they want to beat South Africa on Saturday. After a disappointing defeat to Australia last time out, hooker Mears says his side needs to improve in the scrum against the world champions. He told BBC Sport: "They got the better of us, so we deserved the stick. It was disappointing, but South Africa will pose a different problem. We know we're going to have to step it up.
"We were frustrated because we didn't really get going in the scrum. We've come in for a bit of criticism and rightly so.
"It was one of the better scrums I've faced at Test level, but it was very difficult because a lot of scrums went down and the referee had to take it into his hands and he gave some free-kicks and penalties against us."