Chris Cusiter Scotland scrum-half

Another opportunity at Twickenham has passed us by, and our 24 year losing streak continues.

England's HQ hasn't been a happy hunting ground for us over the years and unfortunately we weren't able to improve the stats on Saturday...

After taking the lead through Simon Taylor's try at around 25 minutes the game got away from us in the second half.

I think we are all disappointed with our overall performance, and that we didn't cause England as many problems as we had planned.

That said, after our first bit of possession in the second half, the gap was only four points and the game was in the balance but to be fair to England, they stepped up a gear for the remainder of the match and deserved their victory.

After last year's first up success against France, the tables have now turned.

We will have to regroup quickly and bounce back against Wales.

Being back in the international scene for the past week has reminded me of the highs and lows you experience playing international rugby.

Chris was happy to get through the match in one piece

On one hand, you have the excitement of the match, the atmosphere, the adrenalin rush... but on the other hand you have the pressure, the fear of losing and unfortunately for us on Saturday, the feeling of losing a Test match.

The contrast between a winning changing room and a losing changing room is marked.

You have to try and take the positives from a defeat, learn from your mistakes and try to improve for the next week.

That is the only way forward. Defence is a big thing for us and to concede four tries makes it difficult to win a Test match.

I am grateful that my body is in one piece. My last three starts for Scotland have culminated in three injures, two requiring operations.

To make it past the 20 minute mark would have been relative success with my recent record.

We know we have a side capable of attacking and scoring tries

At half time I felt like having a glass of champagne instead of my usual Red Bull... Nothing to do with the scoreline obviously but on account of my fitness to play the second half.

As I said, you take the positives, and I'm still able to play the game that I love next week and that means a massive amount to me.

I never thought that I would miss all the cold-weather training in December but I did, and getting back to fitness, although tough, was almost a pleasure.

It almost felt good to be as tired and as battered as I did on Sunday morning, feelings that you miss when not involved.

The cuts and scratches that I have on my nose, eye and forehead testament to the fact I'd played a full-on rugby match... Well, not quite...

They came from our Saturday morning walk-through when I was 'assaulted' by a tree in Richmond during our game of walking touch!

We know we have a bit to improve on this week. I feel that we never quite got into our stride on Saturday and the up side of that is that we didn�t show too much of our hand.

We know we have a side capable of attacking and scoring tries but it doesn't just happen. Defences are better organised and harder working than ever and as such the attack has to be spot-on to break them down.

England defended well against us but we managed tries tries (two more than we managed in last season's Calcutta Cup win).

We are all committed to playing wide, attacking rugby and I'm sure we'll show it in the remaining matches.

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