Tom Curry has revealed there has been an “edginess” to training this week as England seek a victory that would keep their Six Nations title hopes alive and his fellow back-rower Ben Earl explained how the squad have been shown video clips as they bid to stop Scotland’s four-match winning run.
Scotland are the only Six Nations side England have yet to beat under Borthwick after they clinched a 29-23 victory in the head coach’s first match in charge in 2023 before prevailing 30-21 at Murrayfield last year.
Scotland have added Bath centre Cameron Redpath, Edinburgh scrum-half Ali Price and Edinburgh wing Ross McCann to their squad, with centre Matt Currie dropping out due to concussion, back-rower Alexander Masibaka returning to his club Soyaux Angouleme and scrum-half George Horne having a facial injury assessed.
For Earl, the Twickenham defeat was particularly painful and prompted some soul-searching as he soon found himself dropped from Borthwick’s squad while the defeat last year was a line-in-the-sand moment, sparking England into changing their attacking approach.
“[Last year] when we attacked we were passive, we played four passes when we could have played one, we passed instead of carried, we gave them the kind of loose, turnover ball that Finn Russell, Duhan van der Merwe and their strike runners need.
