Iain Morrison attempts to second guess Andy Robinson's selection for Scotland's opening Six Nations match against France in the Scotsman.
"His front row picks itself these days but he has a three-into-two problem in the boiler house and Nathan Hines will start because Robinson didn't so much hint it as shout it from the rooftops, so effusive was he in praising the big Aussie.
Hines will start but there is still a question as to where? The coach admitted that he was tempted to play him at blindside flanker, as he did against South Africa, which spells bad news for Kelly Brown but good news for Richie Gray and Al Kellock, both of whom could then be accommodated in the second row.
Robinson was giving nothing away on the captaincy but there remains a lingering suspicion that if Kellock merits a place in the run-on team then he will lead the side after his sterling efforts in South America. If Kellock doesn't make the XV then the team would presumably be skippered by whichever scrum-half is the flavour of the month. The long Glasgow lock has one final chance to stake his claim this afternoon against the Dragons."
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