As enjoyable as it was watching England get one over on the Australians, let's not pretend the Red Rose is suddenly in full bloom again.
I'll admit I was shocked with the way England bullied the Wallabies, I didn't expect them to beat John Connolly's men.
But I don't expect them to beat France either. The hosts are far more rounded team than the Australians and they won't allow themselves to be bashed around up front in the same way.
Thet are a match in the front row, have parity in the second row and more balance in the back row where Thierry Dusautoir is emerging as the best openside in the competition.
Set against this the Corry, Moody, Easter triumvirate lacks the pace and imagination to put sufficient pressure on whoever plays at ten for France.
That means England will have to try and find a way around France and that’s when the problems start to arise. They couldn’t do it against America and found it hard work against Tonga and Samoa.
Their best chance is swapping Josh Lewsey and Jason Robinson. The former has been anonymous shackled to the wing in this tournament and while the latter revels in a broken field it’s not too difficult to contrive a way to allow him to do that from No 11.
Given they lack the innate ambition or skill to outplay the French, they’ll have to resort to Plan A and try to out-muscle them and this time it won’t happen.