That’ll be three Calcutta Cup victories in a row for Scotland, then. This was the pick of the recent encounters though, played in front of a full throated crowd when neither side was playing badly.
The afternoon for Scotland seemed like almost a return to a traditional separation of duties, with the forwards doing the bulk of the tackling and focusing on clean set-piece (carrying metres were quite low), and the backs taking on almost all the attack. For the most part, it worked very well against an England team that were not yet the sum of their parts under Borthwick but probably will be at some point soon.
Scotland probably didn’t execute to the level that they wanted, but following on from New Zealand and Argentina in the autumn they all looked like they at least knew what the plan was. Also refreshing.
How did Scotland rate?