Scotland V England - The Calcutta Cup

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Past results

2010	13 March	England	15–15	Murrayfield	Edinburgh	63	39	15
2011	13 March	England	22–17	Twickenham	London	64	39	15
2012	4 February	England	6–13	Murrayfield	Edinburgh	65	39	15
2013	2 February	England	38–18	Twickenham	London	66	39	15
2014	8 February	England	0–20	Murrayfield	Edinburgh	67	39	15
2015	14 March	England	25–13	Twickenham	London	68	39	15
2016	6 February	England	9–15[2]	Murrayfield	Edinburgh	69	39	15
2017	11 March	England	61–21[3]	Twickenham	London	70	39	15
2018	24 February	Scotland	25–13[4]	Murrayfield	Edinburgh	70	40	15
2019	16 March	Scotland	38–38	Twickenham	London	70	40	16

Teams


TBC





Furbank; May, Joseph, Farrell, Daly; Ford, Heinz; M Vunipola, George, Sinckler, Kruis, Itoje, Ludlam, Underhill, Curry

Replacements: Dunn, Genge, Stuart, Launchbury, Lawes, Earl, Youngs, Devoto

Dropping Ford and keeping Farrell is based on very little other than reputation, one is clearly playing better than the other.

I find it infuriating when Fords sole mistake gets highlighted but all the good he does gets ignored, aside from that one kick his kicking was very good in the conditions and from hand he's simply better than Farrell is. One of them has had multiple meltdowns in the past year and the other has bailed him out.

Yeah, but Ford is no Cipriani......

Marcus Smith is better than them all....

Ah but Falcons have a promising youngster - name escapes me but something to do with water.

Soul Requiem wrote:Dropping Ford and keeping Farrell is based on very little other than reputation, one is clearly playing better than the other.

I find it infuriating when Fords sole mistake gets highlighted but all the good he does gets ignored, aside from that one kick his kicking was very good in the conditions and from hand he's simply better than Farrell is. One of them has had multiple meltdowns in the past year and the other has bailed him out.

Matt Dawson bigging him up in the beeb website. Though you have to wonder because Sky have given Farrell a better score out of 10 than Ford for the last two weeks.

Farrell was better against Scotland but it would be hard to be as dire as he was Vs France again. Eddie won't drop him even though he probably needs to, I think a fired up Farrell off the bench would probably be better than an off the boil one starting again and offering little.

England missed a chance for a scrum in Scotlands 22 by not knowing the rules (the ref missed it too). A 22 meter drop out by Hogg went all the way into Englands in goal area which Ford touched  down. The ref called a 22 drop out to England but it should have been a scrum back.

Happened on the 27th minute.

Same thing happened in 2016 in the same fixture to Scotland.

Good spot that collapse. Apparently scrum or retake the kick so shouldn't have been our 22 drop out at all. It's bad when the refs dont know the laws.

Yeah law 12.17, I read it though didnt spot it myself.

I like those sorts of rare occurrences. Didn't spot it at all.

Good spot. Probably doesn’t happen often, except in crazy wind like that.

formerly known as Sam wrote:

Soul Requiem wrote:Dropping Ford and keeping Farrell is based on very little other than reputation, one is clearly playing better than the other.

I find it infuriating when Fords sole mistake gets highlighted but all the good he does gets ignored, aside from that one kick his kicking was very good in the conditions and from hand he's simply better than Farrell is. One of them has had multiple meltdowns in the past year and the other has bailed him out.

Matt Dawson bigging him up in the beeb website. Though you have to wonder because Sky have given Farrell a better score out of 10 than Ford for the last two weeks.

Farrell was better against Scotland but it would be hard to be as dire as he was Vs France again. Eddie won't drop him even though he probably needs to, I think a fired up Farrell off the bench would probably be better than an off the boil one starting again and offering little.

Yes, look at how much better Youngs was off the bench against Scotland. Straight away a far better impact on the game. Faz would I think respond well to benching.