Andy Robinson may not have worked miracles for Scotland but they have improved under his stewardship
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David Ferguson assesses Scotland's year under head coach Andy Robinson in The Scotsman with the Six Nations games against Wales in Cardiff and Ireland in Dublin standing out.
"This was the first full year with Andy Robinson and his coaching team at the helm of the Scotland national side and 2010 proved the Englishman to be an experienced, astute and highly promising head coach, but patently not the Messiah.
Scotland essentially had the good luck to have Robinson in the country after he had taken on the Edinburgh post in an effort to return to the game away from England, and leading his side to another of those great against-the-odds Murrayfield wins, against Australia in 2009, which marked a first beating of the Wallabies in 27 years, helped ease him into the new role and the public consciousness...
There was little to remember other than the games in Cardiff and Dublin, but those memories make the Six Nations what it is. They also showed that Robinson could not bring to Scotland the magic one might associate with the Messiah, but thankfully neither did he prove to be a naughty boy in the style of the winless Matt Williams; merely, a coach feeling his way with a new squad, but with a belief that started to filter through in 2010."
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