McInally keen to right wrongs of Twickenham defeat.

Last year’s heavy defeat at Twickenham is still in the minds of the Scotland players as they prepare to host England at BT Murrayfield next week.

A Scotland team chasing the Triple Crown travelled down to London last year with the hope of causing an upset in the Six Nations, but were given a lesson in Test rugby.

They were sent packing with a 61-21 thrashing as England retained their title in style, but hooker Stuart McInally admits the manner of the defeat for Scotland has stayed in the minds of the players, who will be looking to continue the form showed against France last time out.

“It’s definitely still in the back of the minds,” McInally admitted.

“You can’t just ignore the game and pretend it didn’t happen. We will have to look at the game and areas we need to sharpen up.

“That is obviously still in the back of a few minds and we will want to right a few wrongs from that game, especially being back at Murrayfield.”

The decimated front row was deemed an area of weakness in the lead up to the Wales and France games, but Scotland responded manfully in Edinburgh last week with McInally and Simon Berghan in particular standing out, and the hooker is pleased with how they have performed ahead of their biggest challenge yet.

He said: “I feel the scrum has gone fairly well in the first couple of weeks.

“We are taking confidence from that French game where I felt we could actually have been a bit more dominant if we had held our shape and our feet a bit more.

He added: “We have a hell of a lot of depth now, especially in the prop position with how well Bergie played at the weekend.

“He was a real standout performer not just in the scrum but around the pitch as well.”

You can’t just ignore the game and pretend it didn’t happen STUART MCINALLY