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The fly-half kicked 14 points in Saturday night's 24-13 victory in Paris which revived the World Cup finalists' hopes of claiming the RBS 6 Nations, a game which he went into under pressure after disappointing performances in England's opening two games.

"A constant theme has been the number 10 situation: me and Danny Cipriani," Wilkinson wrote in his Times column. "In years gone by... I'd have been concerned about all this, confused and worried about what everyone was thinking about me. It would have been hard to handle. But now, I've lost the desire to be thought of in any way."

He added: "I don't know how many questions I have answered on this subject and there were more after Saturday's game, too: 'Did I think I'd done enough to keep my place?' - that kind of thing.

"I'll always try to be my best and it's not that I don't care if the public think I'm rubbish, it's that I don't care what they think at all.

"If it's good enough and I get selected again, that's great; if it's not then I'll honestly accept it and wish Danny or whoever else the very best."