Jonny Wilkinson has called for Clive Woodward to be England's elite performance director. The World Cup-winning coach is working as performance director at Championship side Southampton but Wilkinson believes Woodward should be brought back into the English Rugby Football Union fold.

"It is rare for me to go public with an opinion on an issue as political as this," Wilkinson said. "But I am happy on this occasion to urge the RFU to go for Clive Woodward."

Following disappointing results, the RFU are restructuring the management of the England team around Woodward's successor Andy Robinson.

Wilkinson added: "I believe he has the skills to do the job well, indeed his particular strengths from his time as England coach are the very credentials that would transfer into his new role.

"Where Clive was so good was his foresight and his ability to understand the next move forward.

"If he was allowed to plan again for England, I believe we could move back to where we were, half a step ahead of the game instead of half a step behind."

Scotland head coach Frank Hadden has drafted Border Reivers backrow forward Kelly Brown into his team for the game against the Barbarians at Murrayfield tomorrow.

The 23-year-old will replace flanker Allister Hogg who starts at number eight in place of Simon Taylor, who is recovering from surgery on his knee.

Brown has three Scotland caps after making a try-scoring debut in Romania last summer following a non-cap appearance in the win over the Barbarians in Aberdeen 12 months ago.

Hadden will maintain a strong starting line-up this week as he prepares for the two-Test tour of South Africa next month.

SCOTLAND (v Barbarians, Murrayfield, tomorrow): H Southwell; C Paterson, M Di Rollo, A Henderson, S Lamont; D Parks, M Blair; G Kerr, S Lawson, C Smith, A Kellock, S Murray, J White, A Hogg, K Brown. Replacements: D Hall, B Douglas, S MacLeod, D Macfadyen, S Pinder, G Ross, S Webster.