netgirl_y2k

I was delighted by both England's improved discipline (because better discipline makes for a better game all round, I think) and by Lancaster's selections. Whoever got that job was always going to have to make some different choices there, England couldn't keep using the same old same old players, because totally aside from the fact that a lot of them were naturally coming to the end of the careers and the well documented discipline problems, they had, as a team burned through a lot of people's good will. So, yes, one to watch, definitely.

Now if only Scotland could learn the same lesson, imagine that there's a lengthy and confused screed here about for what bizzarre confluence of reasons you wouldn't start Greg Laidlaw over Dan Parks?