Doing simple things is recipe for Scots’ success

IF SCOTLAND head coach Vern Cotter and captain Greig Laidlaw had sat down in front of the assembled media and announced that their dog had died they could hardly have looked more miserable. The pair are well suited to each other, neither is what you’d label demonstrative and while the Kiwi has lived and worked in Italy, little of that nation’s garrulous nature has rubbed off on him.