"I thought we have performed very well throughout the tournament, I think we will look back and be very disappointed with that Scotland result and the way we played. Sometimes you can take the result out of it and look at the performance as a whole - and it wasn't perfect out there by any means but we gave it a good go, I thought our scrum and set piece held up nicely - discipline let us down a bit so we have to make sure and fix that. But we had endeavour to go out there and play with a smile on our face - I have loved the last seven weeks."

Steve Borthwick: "I'm really disappointed for the players; they worked so hard and desperately wanted to win, and I'm disappointed for the supporters who have been magnificent. I am immensely proud of the players and how hard they have worked to progress. 

"Sometimes you have to just stay in the fight and I think the boys did that well. If we had one more opportunity there I think we could've got that score but ultimately we ran out of time. We are a team that plays with that much fight and that much intensity - we never actually lose, we just run out of time - and unfortunately we ran out of time tonight.

"We thought we could come here and win but what we have shown over the past few weeks is that we can compete with the top four teams again, we don't just want to compete, we want to win but we've made a first step in the right direction."