England set their sights on the Grand Slam but could end up with the wooden spoon.

It would require both France and Wales to go berserk on Saturday, with Steve Borthwick’s side having a huge points difference advantage, but that it is even a possibility is a condemnation of a campaign that has not so much gone off the rails as disappeared up the sidings.
After a selection meeting last week that turned out to be the night of the long knives with seven players dropped – two were injured with Tom Curry making it three after limping out of the warm-up yesterday and there were 12 changes in all ...