RUGBY UNION | MARK PALMER
Scotland are still learning how to win the crunch games
As Scotland head into a World Cup training camp, Mark Palmer assesses what we have learnt about Scotland this season
The Times
And so another season of Scottish professional rugby comes to an end. There isn’t a whole lot of time for reflection, what with Gregor Townsend’s national team starting their World Cup camp next Monday, but what did we learn from the last nine months of endeavour from our various sides?
First and foremost, that winning crunch games remains very much a work in progress. Scotland were terrific in victory at Twickenham then, crucially, backed it up the following week at home to Wales, but Ireland once again proved an impossible nut to crack in a year that could very well boil down to the World Cup meeting between the teams in Paris on October 7.
After 18 months of tactical muddle and treading water, Townsend’s
