Don't let Alfie wind you up Chris, he loves 6 tackles and a kick, anything with any greater depth goes right over his head. I'm not sure it's a weakened England squad, it might not be the starting XV Eddie wanted to put out, but I don't see Wilson, Genge, Stuart, Lawrence or Hill as weak links. We have enormous strength in depth, they'll fit in seamlessly imo. Could be a closer game than the betting indicates, Scotland are getting their act together, they're not a pushover any more, and the fact that we're so superior to them seems to fire them up to play above themselves against their friends from south of the border. In the end though, I expect it will be just another day at the office for our lads.

I have to reciprocate what Alfie says, apart from his obsession with that strange game they play either side of the M62, he's sound as a pound is Alfie, a good lad.