An injury to Wilkinson would not worry confident Woodward

ENGLAND coach Clive Woodward has insisted he would have no worries if he lost Jonny Wilkinson for the likely RBS Six Nations decider against Ireland in Dublin.

Already without Wilkinson’s deputy Charlie Hodgson due to injury, Woodward pledged his faith in Northampton’s recalled Paul Grayson, who will end four years of international exile when he takes his place on the bench against Scotland at Twickenham on Saturday.

Woodward said: “I’m very disappointed for Charlie but these things happen. If we were to lose Wilkinson this weekend through injury I’m very confident we would go to Ireland and win with Paul Grayson playing 10. And if Grayson wasn’t there, somebody else would play there.