MURRAYFIELD: Scotland hope to create "chaos" against England on Saturday as they look to end their eight-year wait to reclaim the Calcutta Cup.

Eddie Jones has branded Scotland favourites ahead of the Murrayfield clash and while the hosts are unwilling to play up to that tag -- Scotland assistant coach Nathan Hines pointed to England's superior World Rugby ranking -- there is a bullishness within the Scottish ranks they can build on their impressive World Cup form and deliver an early blow on their old foes.

The mobility of Scotland's back-row suggests they will look to manoeuvre England's forwards around the field and create disorder within their ranks. England have already spoken of their goal to get ascendancy in the forward pack and hooker Ross Ford says Scotland aim to disrupt the tempo to the match and unsettle the visitors' game plan.

"Something we look to do all of the time is create chaos both in defence and in attack," Ford said. "That's something we need to look at doing once again. We have trained well this week and we have our systems in place.

"We also need to operate at a tempo and pace which allows us to bring that chaos, it's something we tried to do at the World Cup and it worked well for us. Hopefully we have improved since then and we can show that when we kick-off tomorrow."

Ford, who has 94 Scotland caps, is in familiar territory on Saturday. He will pack down alongside his Edinburgh teammates WP Nel and Al Dickinson in a line-up he describes as "certainly up there as being the best front-row I've played in".

Scotland's hooker Ross Ford takes part in a training session© BERTRAND LANGLOIS/AFP/Getty Images

Opposite Ford will be Dylan Hartley -- someone he has faced seven times at Test level -- and says he expects aggression and solidity in the set piece from the England captain by he will not be concerned about provoking him.

"I won't wind him up, we have focused this week on what we can control," Ford added. "If we do that well then it does create pressure on the opposite players as they are having to react. So we need to be proactive and make sure we control the controllables and do our things right then it puts the pressure on them to react to us."

Ford was his usual calm, methodical, quietly spoken self in front of the press on Friday and would not be drawn into any pre-Calcutta Cup declarations of hatred towards England. Instead he hopes to harness the public's passion but says they cannot launch "fire and brimstone" at England as they will lose focus on the task at hand.

"It's always a great game to be involved in for the way the public see things. When you're walking about and people are talking about the Calcutta Cup and getting stuck into the English, stuff like that, you enjoy being lucky enough to be part of it," Ford said. "It's slightly different for the players. I think it's great having that buzz with the public."