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<blockquote data-quote="Peat" data-source="post: 451500" data-attributes="member: 42330"><p>That was your first mistake...</p><p></p><p>Scottish rugby's been in a funny way for a while. Its posted some fantastic results against the SH sides but in terms of their bread and butter - the Celtic League and Six Nations - they've been woefully off of the pace.</p><p></p><p>The simple truth is that financially they're up **** creek and it's showing everywhere. They can't afford to pay their stars to stay at home, they can't afford to operate more than two professional teams, they can't afford to get a high enough standard of coaching to enough players.</p><p></p><p>Until their debt levels are reduced, they're going to be in a bad place. Letting stars go hurts Embra and Glasgow, but at the same time it eases the books and creates space for youngsters to come through. I also imagine that in the not too distant future, a lot of the Scottish team will have spent time in the English academy system.</p><p></p><p>They could really use with a big marketing campaign to push rugby to the Scottish public. Money in tills, bums on seat, and kids at club.</p><p></p><p>As for Andy Robinson, he did a great job at Embra to get the gig. He's learnt a lot. However, he still has limitations, and he'd picked a bad time to switch styles. Long term, I wouldn't write him off.</p><p></p><p>I certainly wouldn't write off Robinson and Scotland short term either. They appear to be heading for a bad world cup, I really want them to be heading for an incredibly bad world up, but its not done yet and find me an Englishman who's utterly sanguine about the upcoming game and I'll show you a liar or a fool.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peat, post: 451500, member: 42330"] That was your first mistake... Scottish rugby's been in a funny way for a while. Its posted some fantastic results against the SH sides but in terms of their bread and butter - the Celtic League and Six Nations - they've been woefully off of the pace. The simple truth is that financially they're up **** creek and it's showing everywhere. They can't afford to pay their stars to stay at home, they can't afford to operate more than two professional teams, they can't afford to get a high enough standard of coaching to enough players. Until their debt levels are reduced, they're going to be in a bad place. Letting stars go hurts Embra and Glasgow, but at the same time it eases the books and creates space for youngsters to come through. I also imagine that in the not too distant future, a lot of the Scottish team will have spent time in the English academy system. They could really use with a big marketing campaign to push rugby to the Scottish public. Money in tills, bums on seat, and kids at club. As for Andy Robinson, he did a great job at Embra to get the gig. He's learnt a lot. However, he still has limitations, and he'd picked a bad time to switch styles. Long term, I wouldn't write him off. I certainly wouldn't write off Robinson and Scotland short term either. They appear to be heading for a bad world cup, I really want them to be heading for an incredibly bad world up, but its not done yet and find me an Englishman who's utterly sanguine about the upcoming game and I'll show you a liar or a fool. [/QUOTE]
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