Care in confident mood

England scrum-half expects improved showing at Murrayfield

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Care in confident mood

Care: working hard in training

We are working hard every day in training on that last finishing touch - and when it does click I think it will be something really special.

Danny Care
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Danny Care is predicting "something special" from England in Saturday's Calcutta Cup clash with Scotland.

Martin Johnson has shown faith in his misfiring backs for the trip to Murrayfield, despite concerns over their lack of cutting edge and inability to score tries.

But Care believes there is a performance brewing - and he is determined to repay that loyalty by unleashing the as-yet-unseen potential in England's back division.

"We have shown glimpses of how good we can be. We have just lacked a clinical edge in finishing off the tries," said the Harlequins scrum-half.

"We are working hard every day in training on that last finishing touch - and when it does click I think it will be something really special. Hopefully we can do that this weekend.

"It is great to have the confidence from the coaches to get a run in the team because we are never going to improve if we keep chopping and changing every game.

"Hopefully we can put in a strong performance and get a win."

Fluid

Care's ambitions may seem a little far-fetched, given neither of the last two Calcutta Cup matches at Murrayfield have yielded a win for England or even a try.

England have to go back to 2004, when they were newly-crowned world champions and put 35 points on Scotland, for a performance at Murrayfield that could be described as anywhere close to fluid.

The theme of missed try-scoring opportunities has been constant throughout Johnson's reign and attack coach Brian Smith addressed it again this week, claiming the players had let themselves down.

There is no doubt the Red Rose back division are a frustrated bunch and full-back Delon Armitage could not hide his desire to prove that England can do more than talk a good game and make excuses.

"We've got players whose strength is coming from deep and beating players and we haven't used them. We've talked about it but we haven't done it," he said.

"We can't keep saying we're going to use it. There's no better time than right now to do it."