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Published 12:18 24 Feb 2016 GMT
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"It is always nice to be in your own changing room. It’s more of the mindset that you are in your space. "It’s your house and you control what is going to happen."
Hartley, quite rightly, notes that England have lost out on two successive championships due to conceding too many tries. Points difference has gone against them despite high-scoring final day outings against Italy [2014] and France [2015].
"It's time to be part of something," is the Saints hooker's rallying call.
Queried about the rivalry with Ireland, of which England have enjoyed the upper hand since March 2011, Hartley declares:
"It’s a home game so we want to win. And then it’s the fact we are playing the side that have won the Six Nations for the past two years. "They’re standing in the way of where we want to go."On Saturday, come hell, injury or high water, Joe Schmidt will ask 15 Irish players to prolong halt an English movement that is threatening to become a juggernaut.
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