Lukewarmish off the presses:

• Toby Flood (Leicester Tigers) is being reviewed today by the England medical team for a knock that he took on his head playing for Leicester Tigers in the Guinness Premiership and Shane Geraghty (Northampton Saints) has been called up as a precaution.
• Olly Morgan (Gloucester Rugby) has also been included as cover for Delon Armitage (London Irish) who is recovering well from his rib injury.
• Mike Tindall (Gloucester Rugby) returns to the Senior England EPS and replaces Dan Hipkiss (Leicester Tigers) who is unavailable because of an ankle injury.
• Simon Shaw is continuing his rehab and will not be available for the Scotland game. Tom Palmer (Stade Francais) has been called up as an injury replacement for Simon.
• Dan Ward-Smith (London Wasps) is being reviewed today regarding an MCL knee injury he sustained at the weekend. A decision regarding a possible scan will be made today by the England and London Wasps medical teams. Hendre Fourie (Leeds Carnegie) has been called up as a precaution.

Some of these are exactly the sort of thing that scares me about the game this weekend. The England team that we have seen so far are not overly scary although improving, but what if some young tyro with a point to prove (Foden, Fourie) comes in and does a number on fragile Scottish egos/defences? The loss of Shaw is a big blow to our southern cousins though.