No pressure for Fin Smith to outshine Finn Russell in Calcutta Cup Lawrence
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"I don't really think there's too much pressure on Fin; certainly we aren't putting pressure on him to step up or anything like that," said Lawrence.
"The way he played against France and controlled the game put us in the right areas of the field... he managed to set up that try at the end," noted Lawrence.
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