Jones provides mixed messages over Farrell

At training one enterprising photographer took pictures of two white boards that appeared to give a strong hint to England’s starting line-up for the Calcutta Cup match.

After various venues had been used “south of the border”, including The Oval cricket ground, England’s Rugby Football Union realised the benefit of owning their own stadium and bought up land on what had been a cabbage patch at Twickenham in 1907, with Scotland’s first game there in 1911.

On the Red Rose side is Ben Youngs, the Leicester Tigers scrum-half who learned his trade in north Norfolk, with Holt.

Cotter’s Scotland side was thrashed 61-21 on Sunday (NZ Time) by England, who clinched another Six Nations title while Schmidt watched his Ireland team get walloped by Wales, 22-9 on Saturday.

Price, 23, has made three appearances, but made his first start when he replaced injured captain Greig Laidlaw in the 29-13 win over Wales at the end of last month. And if there was only begrudging recognition there should be a cheery salute for what they have achieved.

They travel with more expectation than on many of those other failed missions and have already dispelled two statistics. “We really wanted to play with intensity and tempo today and we had a clear picture about what we wanted to do”.

Scotland’s wins over Ireland and Wales raised hopes the team could earn its first away victory over England since a side coached by Jim Telfer did so in March 1983.

What Eddie Jones has done with this England squad has been nothing short of remarkable.

It was a far cry from the humbling defeat by Scotland at Murrayfield last time out in the Six Nations. “They’re beaten, they’re out of the tournament and they love spoiling parties”.

Fraser Brown was indeed lucky he spent only ten minutes in the bin after his ugly tip tackle on Elliott Daly.

“We couldn’t get a grip on the game and went backwards”.

But Scotland clearly hadn’t done their homework and just as England said on their whiteboards shown to the world at Pennyhill Park – they played off the line out and ripped the opposition apart.

And while Jones was impressed by his outside centre, he was also quick to highlight the work of George Ford and Owen Farrell inside him in setting up those scores. “But we need to learn some lessons”.

With England, it is sometimes easy to forget they are 17 games unbeaten, and a win away from equalling New Zealand’s record of 18 triumphs on the trot.

Scotland outscored England five tries to one, crossing four times in the first half alone.

“Everybody was aware that it was going to be a big match”, Cotter said. Credit to England. They played well, they executed plays under pressure – maybe not under enough pressure. We’re frustrated with the way the game unfolded.