England needs further improvement to challenge All Blacks - Owen Farrell

England centre Owen Farrell has claimed his side will celebrate their recent achievement down-under only for a brief amount of time before focusing on their ultimate goal to challenge the All Blacks.

Coach Eddie Jones and his men had a remarkable season after achieving Grand Slam success during their Six Nations campaign and followed it with a historic 3-0 whitewash to mark their first series victory on Australian soil.

England under Jones have remained unbeaten and have stamped themselves as the number two side in the IRB rankings whereas the Wallabies have fallen two places to the fourth after the Springboks.

England was positioned eighth in the rankings table when Jones took over the reins from Stuart Lancaster, who was excised after the 2015 World Cup debacle.

Jones and his team has now set their sights on beating Steve Hansen and the World Champions All Blacks side.
However, Jones, Farrell and the rest of the England contingent is well aware of the major improvements they need before they can compete with the number one side.

"What we've done is a step in the right direction, but we have to back it up and keep improving because we're not where we want to be.

"It's been brilliant. We'll enjoy this because it has never been done before. We're in a good place but our goal is clearly to be the best, that's what's been said since we met up. That's what we're working towards.

"To beat New Zealand we'll probably have to start joining things up a little bit more.

"We've had games in this series where if one thing's going well something else might not be. It might then swap around for the next Test.

"There might be times we put little bits together, but there aren't big patches of that yet so it's about how we do that.

"We'll definitely go back and look at the series as a whole and make sure we learn from it.

"We're not where we want to be yet although we've come here and got a brilliant three results. The only thing we can do is to get better."

Farrell who had a brilliant series with the boot, played a pivotal role in England's 3-0 triumph. The Saracens fly-half just missed one out of the 10 shots at goal, finishing the series with a 66-point haul and 88 per cent strike rate.

Farrell has credited former England player Jonny Wilkinson for his coaching sessions at the squad's Surrey training base for the improvements in his performance.

"Working with Jonny has impacted on me massively. He's made me understand a lot better what I do and how I get to where I want to get to. He's the best ever," Farrell said.

"I can't see anybody ever being better than him, either. He's a good person to learn from. He's someone who knows it all inside out.

"He's someone who's thought a lot about it. Not only that, but he's a brilliant person to learn off.

"If it doesn't go in one way he's got 10 different ways of telling you how to do it. It's brilliant for the likes of George Ford and myself."

Although he has done an exemplary job, Farrell albeit satisfied, has refused to settle with his performance and looks for improvements.

"That's my job. The first Test probably spurred me on a little bit because even though I knocked them over I wasn't striking them as well as I thought I could," he said.

"I really got back to it the week after and came good. Not everything is perfect at the minute, there's a lot to get on with, but I'm in a good place."