Kevin Ferrie On Thursday Game On. Opportunity Knocks for Andy Robinson and Scotland . . .
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FOR the first time in their history, Scotland go into an autumn Test series this month facing three teams placed above them in the official world rankings. On the face of it, then, there is everything to gain and nothing to lose, since any win would see them gain ground on the leading nations. Even a couple of narrow defeats against Australia and Argentina would result in ranking progress, so far ahead of Scotland are those two countries.
Yet that could hardly be further from the reality of the situation as Andy Robinson attempts to achieve what has eluded every Scotland head coach since Jim Telfer took over on an emergency basis in 1998, by winning his first Test after being appointed to the post.See the full content of this document
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Kevin Ferrie On Thursday Game On. Opportunity Knocks for Andy Robinson and Scotland . . .
In Millennium year, after the Scottish Rugby Union announced his appointment by playing the theme tune of 2001: A Space Odyssey by way of fanfare to herald his second coming, Ian McGeechan steered th...
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