Matt Giteau
Australia and Toulon centre

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Talking about his former Australia head coach Eddie Jones: "If I saw him here I wouldn't know how to behave. He has that presence. He made me think differently about my team-mates and what I could contribute to the team. 

"I was asked for my opinion on Eddie by the RFU and was called off a private number.. There are times at two or three in the morning where he will slip something under the door for the secretary and he expects it to be sorted by 7am."

Jeremy Guscott
Former England international on BBC One

"I'm excited to see what Eddie Jones is doing differently, because it's essentially the same team. What's he doing psychologically?"

Tom Fordyce
Chief sports writer at Murrayfield

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"When previous coach Stuart Lancaster started his England coaching regime in this same fixture four years ago, he began with three new caps and brought another four off the bench. 

"His successor Eddie Jones, by contrast, has put familiar faces before fresh dawns - nine of his first England team started Lancaster's last match, the meaningless group stage win over Uruguay at the end of their disastrous World Cup campaign, while 11 started the reverse fixture a year ago. Sensible pragmatism or same old same old? Murrayfield awaits."

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There have been 132 meetings since.

England lead the head-to-head by 73 wins to 42.

But episode 134 in this long-running neighbourly dispute is the most intriguing for a while.

Kick-off is just a little more than 20 minutes away.

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27 March 1871.

A team from England travelled north to answer a challenge laid down in Bell's Weekly and were sent homeward to think again after Angus Buchanan's try was converted by William Cross for the only score of the match.

The match ball was put on display in a local shop and the very first rugby international had been played.

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Take a left out of Murrayfield, set the sat-nav for postcard-pretty Stockbridge and 10 minutes or so later you will cruise past the Edinburgh Academicals sports fields on Raeburn Place.

In 1999 Scotland lost Cricket World Cup matches against Bangladesh and New Zealand there.

In 1994 England's women won the Rugby World Cup there.

But, it will always be remembered instead for what happened there 145 years ago.

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Right, due north.

Dylan Hartley, Mike Brown and Owen Farrell have arrived grim-faced at Murrayfield.

Time for a bit of history...

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Bryn's right.

Italy had played that final passage of play well, working through the phases and edging into drop-goal territory.

Maybe Sergio Parisse lands those all the time in training. Maybe not.

Either way, the death throes of a tight Test were not the time to find out if he can do it on the field. 

Thomas Castaignede
Former France international on BBC One

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"I said earlier that I didn't think France could be any worse after the World Cup. I think I was wrong.

"We didn't deliver. We moved the ball quite well at times. The back row struggled a lot and Italy played really well."

Tom Fordyce
Chief sports writer at Murrayfield

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"It's cold in Edinburgh, but not cold cold - Februaries at Murrayfield have brought far worse conditions for visiting teams, and with the rain more the occasional shower rather than a dreich deluge, the ball may yet go through hands. Then again, in this fixture..."

Italy centre Michele Campagnaro, speaking to BBC One: "It wasn't easy for us today. France's squad is very hard to beat here at home. I think we put in the right commitment. It's something we can go back to Italy with, but we're disappointed.

"We tried to dominate with our scrum and we have a lot of good players, who are very experienced. The scrum is very important for us."

Carlo Del Fava
Former Italy international on BBC One

"It took a moment of brilliance from Jules Plisson to win the game. From an Italian point of view, next week needs to be like this, as does the rest of the Six Nations."

What is Italian for 'nuts'?

Sergio Parisse suddenly fancies himself as Zinzan Brooke circa 1995 and takes on the responsibility of a drop-goal.

It is a horrible screwed attempt and that is game over.

Italy bash up around the fringes.

Both sides walking the tightrope. A penalty now would be game over for either with play in the middle of the pitch.

Sergio Parisse picks and goes.

Italy have made a couple of metres.

They need more to get within drop-goal range. We are into injury-time.

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More front-row skulduggery.

JP Doyle could be the matchwinner.

It would be a big call to blow for an Italy penalty...

The front rows pop up.

Italy appeal for a penalty.

JP Doyle demurs. Re-set and the tension continues.

Italy have a scrum on the France 10 metre line.

If they can get themselves within range, a drop-goal would be a killer this late in the match.

Carlo Canna is off however. Kelly Haimona fills in at fly-half.