David Ferguson takes a look back at a mixed-bag of a year for the Scottish national team in The Scotsman.
"Style was the great conundrum for Scotland's international squad heading into 2008 and it has remained the case across the ten Test matches since.
"It was not a query over the need for blazers or suits, or the increasingly common casual, no-tie affair, but the more prosaic but pertinent concern over what style Scotland's rugby team could find to uncover tries.
"After the first three games of the year, in the RBS Six Nations Championship the issue of whether Scotland could score was becoming something of a side-issue to that of whether Scottish players had the wit to simply beat a man and break a defence."