Eddie Jones’s prickliness highlights England’s edginess as Scotland loom | Robert Kitson

The unspoken message before the Calcutta Cup is that the Six Nations title holders must harden up mentally, crank up the intensity and bristle a little moreWhat should have been a serene week of Calcutta Cup preparation for England is proving to be the opposite. Even the beautiful spring weather in Bagshot could not distract from the untimely training ground knock suffered by Owen Farrell, nor a strange, prickly press conference grudgingly given by Eddie Jones. Any undercover Scottish visitors would have gone away feeling faintly encouraged.Farrell is expected to be fine but, either way, Engla…