The Sporting Year: Part 2: Six Nations and Glory in Argentina: Not a Messiah, but Robinson has Scots Believing Again
The Scotsman › January 05, 2011
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THIS was the first full year with Andy Robinson and his coaching team at the helm of the Scotland national side and 2010 proved the Englishman to be an experienced, astute and highly promising head coach, but patently not the Messiah.
Scotland essentially had the good luck to have Robinson in the country after he had taken on the Edinburgh post in an effort to return to the game away from England, and leading his side to another of those great against-the-odds Murrayfield wins, against Australia in 2009, which marked a first beating of the Wallabies in 27 years, helped ease him into the new role and the public consciousness.See the full content of this document
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The Sporting Year: Part 2: Six Nations and Glory in Argentina: Not a Messiah, but Robinson has Scots Believing Again
The first real tests would always come in his first RBS Six Nations Championship, however. After three years of one win from five ending Frank Hadden's time in charge, this was where a changing pattern was most critical for the health of Scottish rugby.
The magic of the Six Nations is that, even now, 126 years on from the first 'Four Nations Championship' match and with the advances in professio...See the full content of this document
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