Cotter sees Scots improvements
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Brave, bruised but beaten again, Scotland coach Vern Cotter was left pondering what might have been after a hard-fought Calcutta Cup defeat at Twickenham.
Tries from Jonathan Joseph, George Ford and Jack Nowell secured England the 25-13 win but Scotland were certainly more than a match for the old enemy in sport's oldest international fixture.
They even took a narrow lead into halftime, following Mark Bennett's try, and frustrated their hosts and silenced their crowd, who greeted the final whistle with sighs of relief rather than fevered cheers.
But this was still Scotland's fourth…
Tries from Jonathan Joseph, George Ford and Jack Nowell secured England the 25-13 win but Scotland were certainly more than a match for the old enemy in sport's oldest international fixture.
They even took a narrow lead into halftime, following Mark Bennett's try, and frustrated their hosts and silenced their crowd, who greeted the final whistle with sighs of relief rather than fevered cheers.
But this was still Scotland's fourth…
