TOMORROW’STEAMS Twickenham win all France are focused on

Scotland: Stuart Hogg (Exeter Chiefs, capt); Sean Maitland (Saracens), Chris Harris (Gloucester), Sam Johnson (Glasgow Warriors), Duhan van der Merwe (Edinburgh); Finn Russell (Racing 92), Ali Price (Glasgow Warriors); Rory Sutherland (Edinburgh), George Turner (Glasgow Warriors), WP Nel (Edinburgh); Scott Cummings (Glasgow Warriors), Jonny Gray (Exeter Chiefs); Jamie Ritchie (Edinburgh), Hamish Watson (Edinburgh), Matt Fagerson (Glasgow Warriors). Replacements: Dave Cherry (Edinburgh), Jamie Bhatti (Bath), Simon Berghan (Edinburgh), Grant Gilchrist (Edinburgh), Nick Haining (Edinburgh),

Scott Steele (Harlequins), Huw Jones (Glasgow Warriors), Darcy Graham (Edinburgh).

Ireland: H Keenan (Leinster); K Earls (Munster), G Ringrose (Leinster), R Henshaw (Leinster), J Lowe (Leinster), J Sexton (Leinster, capt), J Gibsonpark (Leinster); C Healy (Leinster), R Herring (Ulster), T Furlong (Leinster), I Henderson (Ulster), J Ryan (Leinster), T Beirne (Munster), W Connors (Leinster), CJ Stander (Munster). Replacements: R Kelleher (Leinster), D Kilcoyne (Munster), A Porter (Leinster), R Baird (Leinster), J Conan (Leinster), C Murray (Munster), B Burns (Ulster), J Larmour (Leinster).

France have been told to forget about a potential Grand Slam and focus on claiming a first competitive win over England at Twickenham since 2005 by general manager Raphael Ibanez.

Fabien Galthie’s team resume their Guinness Six Nations campaign today after a coronavirus outbreak forced the postponement of their scheduled round three fixture in Paris with Scotland on February 28.

After victories on the road at Italy and Ireland last month, France remain in contention for a Grand Slam, which they have not achieved since 2010 but first they must look to pile more misery on Eddie Jones’ under-fire England.

Les Bleus have lost their last seven Six Nations matches at Twickenham but former captain Ibanez said: “The objective is for victory on Saturday at England, who did not give us an inch of ground in front of the French since 2005.

“The stakes of this match and the immense challenge that awaits us, 2005 it was far away.

“Now it’s 16 years that a French team has not won on English soil so before any talking (about the Grand Slam), this game is especially magnificent for this group and they will launch fully into this challenge that awaits us.”

Wales take their unbeaten reacord to Rome to face Italy this afternoon.

Scottish Golf’s long-time national coach Ian Rae has not has his contract renewed with the amateur game’s governing body as part of a review of their performance programme.

Rae has been with Scottish Golf and formerly the SGU for 26 years, the majority of time heading up the amateur game in men’s and boys’ elite coaching programmes.

However, after those programmes were closed down for a year due to cost-cutting as a result of the pandemic, Scottish Golf is now looking in a new direction.

Rae, formerly the head pro at Hollandbush Golf Club, piloted Scottish men’s amateur teams to the World Amateur Golf Championship in 2008 and to several European Team Championship victories.

He remains the swing coach for several leading players who have since turned professional, including three-time European Tour winner Richie Ramsay.

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Scottish Golf did not mention Rae by name, but said that specific roles within a new performance programme had yet to be determined.

“Like all businesses in the last year, Scottish Golf has had to make difficult financial decisions in light of the disruption caused by the pandemic,” said a spokesman.

“Focusing our efforts on supporting affiliated clubs became the priority.

“As previously announced, we took the decision to cancel all of our performance and event activity last year to allow us to divert resources directly into club support.

“As part of this, all self-employed coach contracts, which were agreed on an annual basis, were served notice in 2020 due to no performance activity taking place.”

Scottish Golf has brought in Scotland’s last two major champions, Paul Lawrie and Catriona Matthews, to advise on the new direction of its player performance programme.