England 13-27 South Africa: Eddie Jones says defeat was 'entirely my fault'

England's defeat by South Africa was Eddie Jones' fault, but he believes they can have a good World Cup.

Jones said his players were heading in the right direction even though he apologized for the performance.

Jones told Amazon Prime that they weren't happy with how they played.

South Africa do things to you that are hard to deal with.

We didn't get the shot we wanted. It's difficult to get in the game because you have to win contests and we didn't win in the air.

Two of the key contests were lost, but we will improve in those areas. I feel like there is growth in the team, which we have seen, but it wasn't obvious today.

England has lost six of 12 Tests in the year.

The autumn schedule was disappointing, with a victory over Japan and a loss by Argentina.

Jones was asked if he was still confident in his ability to lead the side into the World Cup.

We want to win games, but are we going in the right direction? We are, yes.

I have been a coach for a long time and I think I can do a good job. There are ups and downs in sport but we didn't play well today and I apologize for that.

"Obviously on results, we are not happy but I feel like we are building a really good base to have a really good go at the World Cup, a really good go"

A number of young players got great experience today and will return better players in the future. Some of our more senior players are coming back to form and we are not far away.

We need to keep progressing. Consistency is what Test Match Rugby is all about.

'The plan was clear'

Tuilagi acknowledged that South Africa made England make mistakes.

Tuilagi said it was a tough game. The Springboks were tough and physical and they put a lot of pressure on us. We were forced to make mistakes and they capitalized on it.

South Africa put us under a lot of pressure because the plan was clear. We have to accept that we weren't good enough.

The building is going well. It can be hard for people to see that.

Owen Farrell said the team would come back stronger.

Farrell said that "it has not worked out for ourselves today and we were not able to show the best of ourselves but we have put in some good work over the past five weeks."

At times, we lacked a bit of accuracy. The game was very slow to start. We didn't get our teeth stuck in the Argentina game, we need to do better.

After narrowly losing in Ireland and France, South Africa beat Italy last weekend.

The captain of the team that won the World Cup said it was a relief. Over the last few months, we have been working very hard.

We are still grateful for the kind of support we are getting from back home despite some results not going our way.

We just stuck to our guns and tinkered with a few things.