Scotland must take Irish lesson

If it's any consolation - and it almost certainly will not be - then the hangdog expression that has become the symbol of the Scottish rugby team, and all who flail in her, was the same hangdog expression worn by Ireland for a decade and more.


The sense of despair and hopelessness was once Ireland's despair and hopelessness.

Those of us who lived, and wrote, through the 1990s across the water still remember what it was like.

We still carry the scars.


These are the good times in Irish rugby and they are all the sweeter because the memory of the bad times are still fresh and…

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