Andy Robinson banks on Scotland pack to yield his sweetest feat Sport

Andy Robinson, the Scotland coach, is unfortunate to equivocate the Six Nations wooden spoon. Photograph: Derek Blair/PA

Andy Robinson rebuilt for his initial Calcutta Cup compare as Scotland"s head manager by articulate up England brazen of Saturday"s confront at Murrayfield. Any inside believe gleaned from his Twickenham days, he insisted, will be not pertinent if the visitors are authorised to fool around with gait and leisure and are not stopped at source by a inspired Scottish pack.

It will be the initial time that Robinson has sent out a side opposite England, with whom he played a distinguished purpose in the 2003 World Cup delight and was head manager for twenty-two games, winning nine, until his depart in 2006. Victory this week end would arrange in between the sweetest of his career but he is acutely wakeful rugby matches are essentially won by the deeds of players rather than by coaches with a measure to settle.

"I can promulgate about the [England] players but it"s still about going out there and delivering," pronounced Robinson, carrying picked Edinburgh"s Nick De Luca at outward centre to column the midfield counterclaim with Max Evans switching to the wing in place of Simon Danielli. "There are a series of really good players who fool around for England. They have a really good brazen pack, they"re really good at aggressive by Danny Care, they have got gait so they are a dangerous team. But if you get in their faces and stop them from playing, you ask genuine questions of them."

Defence, in alternative words, will be consequential if Scotland are to finish a hat-trick of home wins over England for the initial time given the early 1970s and equivocate a power wooden spoon. "It"s about reception the opportunities we emanate and interlude England scoring," Robinson said.

There is not a good understanding of love lost in between Robinson and Martin Johnson, who was in between those vicious of England during the ex-Bath flanker"s latter days in charge. Robinson, though, is all as well informed with the pressures of the England pursuit and has not been astounded at the slam Johnson"s group have been reception notwithstanding their stream Six Nations jot down of dual wins from 3 games: "If they had won 3 out of three, Martin Johnson would have been criticised. I can recollect operative with Clive Woodward and Clive was regularly criticised for what he was doing."

When asked if World Cup-winning captain Johnson showed coaching power when he was a player, however, Robinson"s reply – "He understands the diversion really well from the second-row position" – was not just drizzling with reverence. Johnson, in contrast, referred to Scotland"s pushing diversion "has softened given he"s been up there" and is expecting "a standard England/Scotland encounter" of substantial power and couple of frills. The Scots have had to reshuffle their bench, with the scrum-half Mike Blair and the column Alasdair Dickinson both ruled out by concussion and Alasdair Strokosch sidelined with an ankle injury. Rory Lawson, Geoff Cross and Alan MacDonald have all been declared in the matchday 22.