The Scotland on Sunday's Iain Morrison reflects on a turbulent time for Scottish Rugby.
"McKie [Former chief executive, Gordon McKie] tried to build from the top down, probably because he believed he had no choice. With a shortage of financial and player resources every effort was made to keep the Scotland national team competitive, including the withdrawal of key players from Edinburgh and Glasgow from the Magners League run-in. He reasoned, as an accountant would, that since the Scotland team generated something like 90 per cent of the SRU's income they should get priority over and above all others. He was wrong.
"Scotland have won just one match in each of the last two Six Nations championships while the pro-teams are little better than a joke; unloved, under-resourced, poorly managed and expensive to run. Moreover we have just wasted the last six years while nothing has been done about it. It was Albert Einstein who defined madness as repeating the same action while expecting different results. The pro-teams need to try doing something different if they are to get different results and they almost certainly will when the new man arrives."
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