England captain Chris Robshaw limped from the pitch with an ankle injury in Harlequins’ 42-26 victory over Worcester and faces an anxious wait to find out the severity of the injury. The blow comes just 10 days before Warren Gatland picks his Lions squad and Robshaw is in contention for the captaincy.
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England’s attacking coach Mike Catt believes that the side will learn from their losses after being denied the Grand Slam in a 30-3 defeat by Wales last weekend.   “We are at the top level because we are competitive animals because we want to win everything.
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England assistant coach Graham Rowntree believes that Grand Slam success for England in Cardiff today will come down to battling hostility.   Rowntree believes that his men have to handle their fear and use it to their advantage and insists that if they stick to the plan they are capable of winning.
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Tom Croft came the closest he could to being paralysed 11 months ago after a mistimed tackle on Nick Easter but now he is back in the England fold and ready to put his body on the line again.   “You have to get stuck in,” he told BBC Sport.
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Mike Tindall believes that Chris Robshaw could be the man to captain the Lions tour after impressing in his recent England performances.   Tindall, who has made 75 appearances for England, believes that if England get the Grand Slam, it would be extremely difficult for coach Warren Gatland to ignore the Harlequins flanker.
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England hooker Dylan Hartley believes that his side can overcome France this afternoon because of the improvements they have shown in the last 12 months.
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England fly-half Owen Farrell believes that his side have made a good start to their Six Nations preparations and are better together than this time last year. "As a group we feel like we have the ground running this week," Farrell told Sky Sports.
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England’s 38-21 victory over the All Black’s yesterday was the biggest points margin they have ever had over the side and coach Stuart Lancaster believes that they need to avoid ‘dropping off’ before the Six Nations.
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England head coach Stuart Lancaster admitted that his side have been left devastated after their 20-14 defeat to Australia. The side have come under fire for opting not to take penalty kicks at goal but the England boss believes that the decisions made on the field were right.
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Stuart Lancaster faces injuries ahead of the autumn internationals as both Dylan Hartley and Courtney Lawes left the field with knee injuries during yesterday’s 16-6 home defeat to Saracens. "They've done something, but we will know a lot more later," Mallindertold the Daily Telegraph. [http://www. telegraph. co. uk/sport/rugbyunion/international/england/9638729/England-coach-Stuart-Lancaster-dealt-double-injury-blow-by-Dylan-Hartley-and-Courtney-Lawes.
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Andy Farrell has admitted that the atmosphere of big international fixtures is what drew him to the England job.
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Ben Foden's ankle injury is more serious than first hoped and could see him struggle to get fit in time for the autumn internationals.
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England coach Stuart Lancaster has announced that there is seven changes to his initial Elite Player Squad ahead of the 2012/13 season.     Perhaps the two biggest omissions are that of James Haskell and Dave Strettle who have both missed out despite featuring on the recent tour of South Africa.
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Well, it's been just another normal week in rugby union, with Harlequins becoming English champions, Manu Tuilagi surviving a hearing following a citing that could have ruled him out of England's South Africa tour, London Welsh winning the Championship final and now appealing against the Premier League's absurd decision not to allow them into the...
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By Ian Stafford

*Much of the speculation this week centres around the appointment of the coach of the England rugby team, to take them forward to the next world cup. Every writer and ex-player has an opinion, many of which hail the current set up headed by Stuart Lancaster.
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*Regardless of how England finish their Six Nations campaign at Twickenham on Saturday, Stuart Lancaster should remain at the helm. He is, ever so precisely, guiding a ship that is on course to mount a very real challenge for the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
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The reaction to the first fortnight of competition under Stuart Lancaster’s has been typically, and ever so disappointingly, English. Despite the fact that the Six Nations champions have won their first two matches, and are consequently on course for a successful defence of their title, little praise has been uttered.
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The first weekend of the Six Nations has been and gone in a typical explosion of tribal passion, leaving behind the delicious debris of vehement talking points. With half of the sides in the tournament under new stewardship, the opening fixtures of this season’s championship were surrounded by very healthy intrigue.
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  Much has been made over the past month of Stuart Lancaster’s interim regime, the new dawn brightening the gloom of what was, in many ways, a decidedly gloomy Rugby World Cup for England. Naming his first Elite Player Squad last Wednesday, the Yorkshire schoolteacher reaffirmed a pressing need for change.
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