Despite some rustiness from both sides, a fairly solid English performance saw them look to create opportunities throughout the game. Targeting the high ball, solid scrums, line speed from defence all showed there is much more to come. Scotland applied pressure. Hogg and Maitland showed promise but Scotland lacked the accuracy as a team to really threaten. Tries from Kruis on 5 Mins, Nowell 51 plus a Farrell penalty saw England home 15 - 9 . Standout performance was MOTM Billy Vunipola.
@bigjoeshep is the Owner and Head of Information & Knowledge Management at Digital Knowledge Zone. An avid Leinster & Ireland Rugby fan, he came to rugby at the late age of 24, was a tight head prop, had at least 2 good runs in every game and retired at only 36 after 3 operations on his legs and now forms the 4th "virtual" person in a front row each time his beloved teams are playing (much to the annoyance of his suffering girlfriend who has to put up with being "embraced" by the Big Fella at each scrum!!!)
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