England v Scotland 2015 Fan's pre match thoughts

By Kath / Sportsbeat
March 13 2015

England welcome Scotland this weekend to Twickenham and will give them the full respect they deserve. 

 

 

 

 

RBS Six Nations 2015

England v Scotland

Calcutta Cup Match

 Twickenham - 14 March, 2015 - Kick-off: 17:00 

England will give the Scots full respect this weekend, regardless of what has gone before for Scotland.  England need to perform really well this weekend, they need to win and they need to win well with lots of points!   Easier said than done!   But it has to be done and no messing about at the start of the match.

England recently have slipped into a rut of starting games slowly, falling behind and then coming back to win.  However, they were out done by the Irish last time and played that card too many times.   Plus the lack of discipline was horrendous.

So I want to see all that gone and as I said a good win with enough points to takes us top of the table.  

Mike Brown and lock Courtney Lawes will return to England's starting line-up.  Sportsbeat chatted to Anthony Watson about the preparation for the match.

Head Coach Stuart Lancaster looks forward to the match

 

England: M Brown (Harlequins); A Watson (Bath), J Joseph (Bath), L Burrell (Northampton), J Nowell (Exeter); G Ford (Bath), B Youngs (Leicester); J Marler (Harlequins), D Hartley (Northampton), D Cole (Leicester), D Attwood (Bath), C Lawes (Northampton), J Haskell (Wasps), C Robshaw (Harlequins, capt), B Vunipola (Saracens).

Replacements: T Youngs (Leicester), M Vunipola (Saracens), K Brookes (Newcastle), G Parling (Leicester), T Wood (Northampton), R Wigglesworth (Saracens), D Cipriani (Sale), B Twelvetrees (Gloucester).

 

Scotland: Stuart Hogg (Glasgow Warriors); Dougie Fife (Edinburgh), Mark Bennett (Glasgow Warriors), Matt Scott (Edinburgh), Tommy Seymour, Finn Russell (both Glasgow Warriors), Greig Laidlaw (captn) (Gloucester); Alasdair Dickinson (Edinburgh), Ross Ford (Edinburgh), Euan Murray (Glasgow Warriors), Jim Hamilton (Saracens), Jonny Gray (Glasgow Warriors), Robert Harley (Glasgow Warriors), Blair Cowan (London Irish) David Denton (Edinburgh).

Replacements: Fraser Brown, Ryan Grant (both Glasgow Warriors), Geoff Cross (London Irish), Tim Swinson (Glasgow Warriors), Johnnie Beattie (Montpellier), Adam Ashe (Glasgow Warriors), Sam Hidalgo-Clyne and Greig Tonks (both Edinburgh)