Gregor Townsend will need to address Scotland’s lack of physicality | Michael Aylwin

Speculation had it that England were nervous going into the Calcutta Cup, but Scotland instead met with a clinical brutality they could not handle

So, some way still to go. Scotland came south, heralded, rightly, as the best side to do so this century. They return nursing the concession of 61 points, more than Scotland have suffered in this fixture in any century. They summoned the spirit to score 21 of their own and played to the bitter end despite the fearsome pounding they had suffered for 80 minutes, which had bent their back line, in particular, into a hideous contortion, greater toll suffered on the injury front than even in Paris a couple of rounds earlier.

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