Writing in The Times, Lewis Stuart reflects on the appointment of Gregor Townsend to Andy Robinson's Scotland coaching team.
"Two months after being named as Scotland head coach, Andy Robinson made his first key appointment on Friday when he installed Gregor Townsend as the national side's attack coach. It is a job that Townsend has done before on a part-time basis but now he will move on to the Scotland staff full-time, though he will maintain links with his previous employers, the Winning Scotland Foundation.
"It is a remarkably rapid rise for Townsend, 36, who retired as a player only two years ago and has done hardly any coaching. When Robinson was the coach of Edinburgh, he brought Townsend, the 82-cap fly half or centre, in one day a week to help with the backs, but his only experience of handling a team through the week building up to a big match has been two brief spells with the Scotland A team and working as assistant to Frank Hadden in the RBS Six Nations Championship earlier this year."
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