Discipline must be the watchword before Millennium Stadium clash after England make habit of incurring referee's wrath. David Hands writes in The Times.
"Time and again on Saturday, Martin Johnson was asked if England have a discipline problem. Each time the team manager deflected the question, suggesting that the number of penalties conceded was the result of over-enthusiasm, inexperience, even the harshness of match officials. But he knows better than anyone that if England continue to play with 14 men during the Six Nations Championship, they will suffer.
"Brian Smith joined the coaching panel as attack coach last year with a deserved reputation for creative rugby. There has been little sign so far of coherent back play by England, indeed in the first five minutes of yesterday’s game at Murrayfield, both Scotland and Wales produced more thoughtful rugby than either England or Italy contrived in 80 minutes."
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