Andy Robinson still has much to ponder despite Joe Ansbro's late try against Ireland
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The Daily Telegraph's Alasdair Reid believes Scotland now face a race against time to hone their preparations for the forthcoming World Cup.
"To Scotland the scoreboard; to Ireland a rather better result. Declan Kidney’s side took their leave of Edinburgh knowing that they have much work to do, but also that they will have the opportunities to get the jobs done.
For Andy Robinson’s Scotland, however, the World Cup build-up now looks like a race against time.
Ireland will play four more games before they set off for New Zealand, three of them full Tests. Scotland have only one more match — against Italy in a fortnight’s time — but this narrow squeak of a win over Ireland on Saturday left Robinson with more questions than could ever be answered in the space of 80 minutes.
So ring-rusty were some of his key players that it is far from certain that Robinson is much wiser now about their readiness for the World Cup than he was before the match. Can he afford to take No 8 Johnnie Beattie to New Zealand without giving the out-of-sorts player another competitive outing?"
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