Not sure who 'we' is, but if you mean the oak-hearted chaps of an English nature, they did ok against the notoriously unbeatable boks at the weekend, beaten only by two missed penalties and a freak-bobble try. Not trying to pretend it was a triumph, but hardly the basis of a 'not worth bothering' write-off. Nor let's not forget how 'in development' the current crop are.
And what, for that matter, is that nonsense about 'having France as a backup team'? France (*spit*) are the ENEMY! Let no true-born Englishman forget it.