A high-intensity training session - in which new assistant coach Willie Anderson played a central and vocal part despite only officially being on tour as an observer - ended with prop Tom Smith icing his thigh and full-back Hugo Southwell requiring stitches to a head wound.

Confrontation and commitment to the cause is exactly the way Williams wants his players to build on the impressive victory over Samoa and prepare for Melbourne.

There are key lessons Williams is anxious his players learn from the development squad's "complacent" performance as they were humbled 33-15 by a shadow NSW Waratahs side.

He said: "I think that defeat was fantastic for the Test team.
The guys just thought it was going to happen against the Waratahs and it didn't.

"We had a good week last week, the young guys had a performance against NSW Country and the Test side played particularly well against Samoa.

"But that is history. You have to build on it, we have to have consistency. We have to produce a performance against the Wallabies that is worthy of the occasion.

Williams added: "Something I have been at us about is not to benchmark internally - we have got to compare ourselves to who we are playing against.

"We have got to compare ourselves against the Wallabies, England, France. Are we training to that intensity? What tackle counts, what performance standards have they set? We have to match that.

"It has been hard for the guys because we are behind and we tend to come out with negative results.

But what they have done in the last six months is to take that as a challenge. Our work rate against Samoa was treble what we did during the 6 Nations.

Bruce Douglas made 15 tackles, Ally Hogg made 23 tackles which is almost double what we averaged in the 6 Nations.

"It comes back to the concept of 'deserve to win'. There are the numbers to prove it.

You can show them - here are the numbers against England, here are the numbers against Samoa.

The victory didn't just happen by accident, the work rate right across the team is up.

"So if we put that performance in and more against the Wallabies we will go out there and be very competitive. And if we take our chances, who knows?"