article_snippet: After the Lord Mayor’s Show on Saturday afternoon in Cardiff — where their title hopes will be crushed or resurrected — England will set about further diminishing the value of the old Calcutta Cup at Twickenham.
article_snippet: The notion of defeat is unthinkable, in an increasingly downgraded fixture.
article_snippet: Enemy’ and this does not appear to be the occasion when that dire run is destined to come to an end.
article_snippet: Andy Farrell summed up England’s mood on Friday, saying: ‘I’ll be disappointed if we don’t get the performance this week — and with that hopefully we could be able to keep the record going.
article_snippet: So, at the end of a week which began with Stuart Hogg bemoaning a lack of English
article_snippet: Defeat would wreck the quest to create that fortress-feel at Twickenham and would also ensure that England could not rely on telling momentum to propel Lancaster and his squad into the showpiece event in September and October.
article_snippet: What is crucially absent from the English armoury is an ability to shape the English armoury own championship destiny.
article_snippet: In the hours before kick-off, the English armoury must decide whether to stay true to the English armoury pre-match plan involving a black-out of all news from Cardiff, where Wales can do the English armoury an almighty favour by ending Ireland’s Slam crusade at the penultimate stage.
article_snippet: Instead of being distracted by a game elsewhere which will all but confirm whether the English armoury remain in the title hunt, England will abide by one of the English armoury favourite mantras:
article_snippet: There will be blunt demands for a better start, better discipline, more assurance under the high ball and more collective conviction at the breakdown — with a particular onus on captain Chris Robshaw in that department.