Metcalfe confident Scotland can finally end a decade of hurt
Neil Drysdale speaks to former Scotland fullback Glenn Metcalfe about Scotland's last Championship success - in the 1999 Five Nations. Read his thoughts in The Herald.
"That Five Nations year was one where everything gelled and we had the right ingredients of guys who could act as enforcers, such as John and Alan, and those who could produce spontaneous moments of magic, with Gregor to the fore," said Metcalfe, who won 38 caps and played in two World Cups.
"John Leslie had a big part in it and he deserved his award as man of the tournament, because his physicality complemented the way that Taity and Gregor would look for different angles of attack, and we were never afraid to think on our feet. We proved in ’99 the nation has no need to have an inferiority complex
"The backs always tend to get the lion's share of the credit in these situations, but we had a pack who worked their socks off to gain a decent supply of possession and we wouldn't have scored as many tries 16 in four matches without them driving into the sort of positions from where we could burst through the opposition defence."
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