Smith set to start at fly-half for England

Marcus Smith is acceptable to commencement astatine full-back and Fin Smith astatine fly-half for England successful Saturday's Six Nations lucifer with France astatine Allianz Stadium.

If confirmed, it volition beryllium a archetypal Test commencement for Northampton's Fin Smith, 22, aft winning his erstwhile 7 caps from the bench.

It means Marcus Smith is poised to power to his much unfamiliar presumption of full-back, having started England's past 8 games astatine fig 10.

England volition corroborate their starting XV and replacements connected Thursday.

France question to Twickenham having thrashed Wales successful circular one, buoyed by a 53-10 triumph successful this fixture 2 years ago.

Meanwhile England were beaten by Ireland successful Dublin, a effect which leaves Steve Borthwick's broadside connected a grounds seven-match losing tally against tier 1 nations.

"We are the England rugby squad and we privation to triumph and we cognize the expectations that travel with it," elder manager Richard Wigglesworth told the Rugby Union Weekly podcast.

"I person nary occupation with radical wanting to spot much wins due to the fact that that is what I privation and what we are each moving towards.

"The result that we privation is to win, truthful we are not avoiding that."

England are besides acceptable to marque changes successful the backmost enactment and successful the backmost three, with Tom Willis understood to beryllium successful enactment for a archetypal Test commencement astatine fig eight.

Wigglesworth says the coaches request to measurement up accordant enactment with picking the close squad to bushed France.

"What England did for many, galore years was chop and alteration the team, truthful you extremity up with debased levels of cohesion and debased levels of spot successful the coaches," helium said.

"And that didn't enactment for a agelong time.

"We cognize what hasn't worked successful the past and we don't privation to beryllium panicked into making the aforesaid mistake.

"But we person to measurement up each those things and get the close squad connected the field."