Toby Flood says the Rugby World Cup semi-finals to reach the minimum requirement for England and from there "anything can happen" must be.In the world the Six Nations champions are currently ranked fifth, behind the All Blacks, South Africa, Australia and Ireland, but they attract a favorable have. England and Scotland including the pool with Argentina and France set up a potential quarter-final showdown will likely top.
Flood said, the Leicester and England fly-half, "Our goal is to reach the semi-final. That is our minimum requirement. I would be very disappointed if we don't get that far.
"Obviously our aim is to win the World Cup. We want to go as far as we possibly can but to win a trophy you have to take it one stage at a time.
"If you can make the semi-finals then anything can happen. You are one game away from the final and you can readjust your goals from there."
England's 2003 Six Nations after their first tournament title this year after more than week of stuttering and finally defeat Ireland in Dublin despite the cost of their Grand Slam win.
Flood admits England shock requires that taught a cruel lesson, especially rugby league instead of developing their games to keep the same gameplan rely too much on.
Flood said, "That is hugely important. We started the tournament fantastically and we were playing in a certain manner but the Dublin weekend taught us the need to evolve as a squad, that we need to make better judgments.
"We need to be preparing specifically for that one game rather than preparing in general."
That's too bad for them. Well, there's still next year. Take 6 Nations packages and see those breath taking matches.
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