Brian Moore
Ex-England hooker on BBC One

“Danny Care just saw the gap and he was outstanding, but it was poor defending from France. Unless they improve it is going to be a long evening for France.”

Matt Dawson
2003 World Cup winner

"Take a bow Eddie Jones, what about that for selection? There is no one better than Danny Care attacking around the rucks."

Open stuff so far.

Scott Spedding - a confusing kind of warp-speed prop - makes some mayhem in the England backline but fails to connect with Virimi Vakatawa.

If both side had joined the dots, we would have had three tries by now... 

Mike Brown on a little burst on halfway as he shrugs off Gael Fickou and sniffs open pasture, but he can't find his inside runner and Maxime Machenaud's clever kick exploits the England full-back's absence at the back.

France's thick-set flying machine Virimi Vakatawa gets up steam, leaving Jack Nowell in the dust before Mike Brown manages to shunt him out of play just in time.

A warning shot for the visitors.

Indiscipine is the dish of the day in Paris.

France's Gael Fickou wraps an arm around the neck of Anthony Watson as the pair wrestle for the drop-out ball and Nigel Owens sounds the horn.

Owen Farrell steps up, gives it the Terminator stare and sends it through the sticks for three and parity.

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Maxime Machenaud pops it over.

No-one said it would be easy.

Actually a few hinted at it...

France take play up the England 22. Scott Spedding half-breaks and is caught by Chris Robshaw. Maro Iotje gets over-eager, takes a nibble too many on the deck and is pinged by Nigel Owens.

Two penalties in as many minutes and England have gone from the France 22 to their own and given Maxime Machenaud the chance of three...

A round of applause for recently-departed businessman and big noise in domestic French rugby Serge Kampf and we are ready to go.

George Ford drops out onto the France 22m and Anthony Watson gives away a penalty inside the opening seconds as he takes out Gael Fickou in the air.

And we are back in the room!

England fancy-dress knights in a crowd of fluttering French flags.

Eddie Jones' men are collecting in the tunnel.

Phew! Time to take a deep breath after all that excitement in Dublin.

All our focus now will be centred around the entertainment in Paris. Nope, we're not going to the Moulin Rouge. Or EuroDisney. It's the Stade de France!

There we will discover if England can win their first Grand Slam since 2003. Or will the dastardly French rain on their parade?

We're making a quick substitution - Mike Henson is trudging back into the office to talk you through Le Crunch...

Ireland have partially salvaged a wreck of a Six Nations campaign, back-to-back victories in their final two games lifting them into third. 

Scotland's 20-year wait for three Championship wins in a row goes on...

Scotland captain Gregor Laidlaw: "Indiscipline let us down. We're disappointed because we talked about how important it was to keep our discipline. We fell the wrong side of some refereeing decisions but that happens. 

"We couldn't get our hands on the ball in the early stages, we just had to hang on and ride the storm. We did that but let them back into the game.

"It's not all negative. We came here and scored 25 points, if we can sort our defence out then we will win Test matches."

Ireland number eight Jamie Heaslip: "We're happy with how the campaign has finished in terms of the table and results. We're glad we have given the fans something to cheer. 

"We didn't get too many opportunities but we took them when we did have them."

Denis Hickie
Former Ireland winger on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra

"Ireland physically dominated Scotland in the opening half and racked up too much of a lead for Scotland to come back.

"Scotland played like a team that had been drained emotionally from their last win. They were within a score of challenging for the game but left themselves with too much to do."