The questions are adding up for England and Eddie Jones. They always would do, of course, had the team returned from Murrayfield with anything other than victory, but the nature of Scotland’s 20-17 win and England’s late collapse throws the door open to a potentially uncomfortable spring for the head coach.
It’s not all bad news for England. Their opening Six Nations defeat marked the third year in a row in which they had failed to win on the first weekend of the tournament, and not all of those seasons have ended in disaster – they recovered to win the title in 2020.
