SAINTS hooker James Roby is confident that England can wrest the momentum back from the Kiwis and secure the test series at a sold-out DW Stadium on Saturday.

Although disappointed with some aspects of England’s massive let down in the capital last week, with New Zealand scoring the only try of a dour struggle at the Olympic Stadium, Roby is drawing positives from the things the team did right rather than letting the negative aspects fester.

Although London will go down as a missed opportunity, Roby believes that if the pool of talent plays to its capabilities they can wrap up the first series win since Great Britain beat the Kiwis in 2007.

Roby said: “We need to improve a bit. It is now 1-1 and that adds to the excitement for everyone apart from us.

“But we need to go out there at Wigan and do our jobs. We know what we are capable of this week and I am confident we have the ability to seal the series.

“If we go out next week with the calibre of players we have then I am confident we will be ok.”

Roby, like several of the other forwards who came through the tunnel to be interviewed after the game, sported the bumps and bruises of battle but nothing too serious, merely the marks of a high intensity, test match against a physical side.

“When you play international the intensity always goes up and they are a big set of lads,” Roby said.

“They take some stopping.

“There are a few bumps and bruises but nothing too bad.

“The match was obviously disappointing and we could have played a lot better than what we did.

“It was such a close game, but not the prettiest to watch with a lot of just up the guts play.

“New Zealand improved from last week, which we knew they would, and we came out and had to match that and go over the top of it again.

“There was only one try in it, it was a close game, we stuck to it right to the end and there was no point where the lads gave in.

“There was a lot of courage and effort there.

“They had a number of sets on our line and that is obviously a positive for us that we defended that.

“They have a lot of attacking threat and tricky players who are hard to handle but we will take confidence from that.

“I am sure when we review the game there will be positives in it.”

Saturday’s game at Wigan kicks off at 1pm.