Eddie Jones is backing his young, inexperienced players to become stronger after the painful defeat at Murrayfield.
In 2020, England lost their Six Nations opener and went on to win the Championship but, in 2021, they finished a dismal fifth after suffering another first-day defeat.
But after 23-year-old Tom Curry captained Jones’s team to an agonising loss in which 22-year-old Marcus Smith’s 17 points proved to be in vain, Jones believes his class of ’22 is made of stern stuff.
