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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jakedood" data-source="post: 1213095" data-attributes="member: 72409">Intriguing from England. Scotland with Finn and Kinghorn do like to kick long with regularity but there's definitely enough presence to pressure Smith in the middle of the park with traditionally more adaptability than the French would show.Chessum has looked dynamic off the bench twice this six nations, and Scotland's scrum isn't the dominant force of say the French so I think England have backed off that to counter the threat in the air of Gilchrist/Gray/Ritchie.I think the duality of the Smith's splitting time behind the first and second pods of forwards actually looked effective in attack. May all come down to the quality of ball Scotland can get, which was completely nullified by Ireland and could be by England with that rapid back row</blockquote>