FANTASTIC FINN CAN WIN IT FOR SCOTS

England’s last properly competitive home game before the World Cup and they’ll want to leave a mark at Twickenham knowing a trip to Dublin awaits next weekend.

They were poor against Wales last time out but new head coach Steve Borthwick has something that the new Warren Gatland era across the border doesn’t – a win or two.

And with those, Borthwick can claim he is building towards the showpiece event in France later this year.

The winners of this will be in the mix next weekend so the pressure is on both sides and it will be fascinating to see how each side deals with that increasing pressure.

I will be at Twickenham on Saturday and I do think I will be seeing a French victory, but the great thing about this Championship is that you never know.

Building Rome

Elsewhere in round four I foresee a crunch clash for Wales. They have been awful, with an attack which would be unable to punch itself out of a paper bag and a defence that has only partly held up.

They were poor against an average England and even worse against solid Scottish and Irish outfits, and they could struggle again this weekend.

Italy will have been targeting this match for a number of months and beyond, having beaten their opponents in Cardiff last time out.

Gatland is back in charge of Wales but it hasn’t gone to plan.

They desperately need to beat the Azzurri in Rome, and while traditionally they’d have seen only a comfortable win as satisfactory, I feel like they’ll take whatever they can get on Saturday.