Six Nations 2013: England promise to handle great expectations in Calcutta Cup match against Scotland "I have had an edgy week," said Rowntree. We have a performance we have to back up, and we have a team with nothing to lose and two very astute coaches and some great players. We have come a long way. What has pleased me most is the players we have bloodied in key positions. We have got a good culture and one of our bedrock statements is we have to be hard to beat. We will challenge you in every area of the field. We have built on that but we are nowhere near where we can be. No one knows that more than us. I am pleased how the last year has gone, but I want more. Against the All Blacks, England had the freedom of the underdog; today, as the team's captain Chris Robshaw admitted, they are the side in Scotland's crosshairs, just as New Zealand had been in theirs. "It is a completely new challenge to last year," Robshaw said. We were a new coaching team, new players and no one really knew what to expect from us. It is a new challenge. People expect different things from us and as players it is about rising to that challenge. We haven't been in this position before but we are excited by it. We spoke in the week about the honour of playing in the oldest international rugby fixture in history. You don't get many opportunities to play special games like that. Both sides will be fully aware of what the game means and the history and rivalry between the two countries. England, in recent fixtures against Scotland, have been slow starters. Robshaw is demanding an opposite reaction from his side to demonstrate they are not daunted by any sense of pressure from the occasion. We spoke in the autumn about getting an 80-minute performance and that has to be the case in this campaign. We need to make sure we hit the ground running and can't take 20 minutes to warm up. From minute one we need to go out there. We are not going to underestimate these guys at all. Dean Ryan knows every one of our English players quite well. He commentates on the game and I think he may have been into one of the odd camp when he was commentating for Sky. He knows us very well and I am sure they have a couple of tricks up their sleeve but it is about hitting the ground from minute one.