England have been training at their Pennyhill Park base with Welsh song “Hymns and Arias” playing over the loudspeakers to emulate the atmosphere awaiting at the Millennium Stadium for tomorrow nights Six Nations opener with Wales, head coach Stuart Lancaster confirmed yesterday.

“It’s a way of trying to replicate for the players who haven’t been there examples of sounds they’ll hear around the stadium but also how clear your communication needs to be,” Lancaster said.

“We’ve not done it all week because we don’t have the eardrums for that.”