Greig Laidlaw: ‘The jersey means so much but you can’t go on the field thinking that’

While Scotland and their captain suffered heartbreak at the 2015 World Cup, the upbeat efforts mean they go into the Six Nations match against England with no inferiority complex and the auld enemy rhetoric on the back burnerIt is the calm, measured tone of Greig Laidlaw that should concern England most. Before most Calcutta Cup encounters the auld enemy rhetoric tends to swirl as thickly as winter mist across a Highland grouse moor. Not this year. “We know how much the jersey means to the Scottish people but you can’t go on to the field thinking that,” Laidlaw says, flatly. “It really did fee…

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