RIVAL captains Phil Vickery and Ryan Jones are in agreement with a little over a week to go before Wales get to grips with England at Twickenham in the Six Nations Championship - they both believe the hiding the Welsh team suffered in their last meeting will be irrelevant.

Vickery said at yesterday's Six Nations launch at the Hurlingham Club in London: "Wales can't look back at what happened then. They were not at full strength and we played particularly well.

"Looking at the Wales squad now they have got world class players and two of their regions are flying high in Europe. They have got new coaches and there is a lot of anticipation surrounding their squad.

"We're expecting a hell of a game. They've not won at Twickenham for 20 years which will be pretty high motivation for them and their guys will want to go out there and put that right."

England coach Brian Ashton agreed that the gap of two decades without success for Wales will be a huge incentive for them a week on Saturday.

"The fact that they haven't won at Twickenham for 20 years will be pretty motivational in itself," he said.

"They will also look at the World Cup and realise that they didn't achieve as much as they would have liked.

"I know Warren Gatland and Shaun Edwards personally and in time I'm sure they will do a fantastic job, but immediately what they will do is lift the spirits for Wales.

"That means they will play a lot better, so it's going to be a really intriguing first step at Twickenham."

Vickery admitted England have got to improve on recent performances in the Six Nations.

"We haven't been good there for the last four years, but we want some silverware in the Six Nations," he said.

"We want to win it which is something we haven't done for some time."