Non Evans knows that Wales have been handed a tough draw for Women's Rugby World Cup 2010, pooled with three-time defending champions New Zealand, RWC Sevens 2009 champions Australia and South Africa.
The full back admitted her "disappointment" on hearing that draw for next year's tournament, but insists that Wales will not shirk the challenge and will draw confidence from a first ever victory over England in 22 years of trying.
Evans kicked the last minute penalty to seal that 16-15 win in this year's Six Nations, denying England the prospect of a fourth successive Grand Slam and going on to secure a first ever Triple Crown.
"I have played England for years and years and we haven't really come that close, let alone beat them," Evans admitted earlier this week at the Women's Rugby World Cup 2010 official launch at Twickenham.
"I think it just gives the girls confidence because England sometimes are put up on a pedestal, like New Zealand, but at the end of the day they are 15 girls on a pitch.
"I think it will give us confidence going into the World Cup that everybody is beatable, no-one is unbeatable like England showed beating New Zealand on the weekend. We will draw confidence from that victory over England, build on it and hopefully we can go from strength to strength."
Building for the future
The first opportunity for Evans and her teammates to "build on it" comes this weekend when Wales welcome Sweden, another nation looking ahead to a World Cup return, to St Helen's in Swansea.
It is a match which Evans is looking forward to, happy to have some different opposition to test themselves against ahead of the Six Nations and the chance to develop strength in depth for the year ahead.
"The big game obviously is the World Cup and the Six Nations will be stepping stones and building for that World Cup. We have got a couple of autumn internationals coming up against Sweden and Kazakhstan and we have got new caps coming in at 10, at hooker and on the wing.
"It is important that we do blood some new players going into the World Cup because it is a tough schedule with five games in two weeks. It is important that we have a strong squad and the Six Nations this year will be about developing new players and building that strength in depth ready for the World Cup.
"I think with the Home Nations we analyse each other so much, we mark players out of the game, so it will be nice to play against nations we don't know much about and we can try things and have that different type of opposition.
"The same goes for playing the sides from the southern hemisphere, it's not like men's rugby where we play New Zealand, South Africa and Australia week in week out, that doesn't happen in women's rugby, so it will be great to play against different nations with different styles and I am really looking forward to it."
