shock defeat by Italy<\/a>. England have not won at Murrayfield since 2020, however, and only once since 2016 with Russell proving their nemesis on several occasions.<\/p>\nThe 33-year-old orchestrated the Lions\u2019 series victory over the Wallabies last summer with Wigglesworth one of Andy Farrell\u2019s right-hand men on the coaching staff and he has conceded coming up with a specific plan to stop Russell is a bootless errand.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow many defence coaches have gone in with a Finn Russell plan and been made to look pretty stupid?\u201d said Wigglesworth. \u201cIt\u2019s not something we\u2019ve done in that regard, it\u2019s more: how do we stop Scotland and what they can do? Because we know the dangers they have out wide and what the guys in the middle produce for them.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s one of those guys whose talent speaks for itself but he works hard on it. I found him really diligent. Obviously his mind works really fast. You tell him something or there\u2019s some part of a plan he just picks up and goes with it. All the stuff you expect with the standard of player he is. He\u2019s always a personable bloke so you can have those chats with him. I probably got to see more of it, up close.\u201d<\/p>\n
The England flanker Sam Underhill has pointed to Russell\u2019s defensive mettle as well as his attacking attributes, revealing he has thought better of putting one of his trademark tackles on the Scot in Bath training. \u201cHe\u2019s far too expensive to do that,\u201d Underhill said. \u201cHe\u2019s a physical 10, as well, which is probably an underrated part of his game. He\u2019s a good defender, he\u2019s a good hitter, and he\u2019s not a small guy. I don\u2019t want to big him up too much but he\u2019s a fairly well rounded player.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a very talented rugby player. He\u2019s a very confident player. That\u2019s probably one of his strengths \u2013 he\u2019s pretty unflappable. I\u2019ve got a lot of respect for the guy and enjoy playing with him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The England defence coach, Richard Wigglesworth, has admitted it is pointless trying to come up with a plan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-422933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}