By Alasdair Reid 730AM GMT eighteen March 2010
Worry Kelly Brown, Scotland"s blindside flanker who suffered a head damage in a incident with England"s Ugo Monye Photo PA Yet Robinson came in to his pursuit as Scotland manager last year priesthood the gospel that winning is everything, so he at slightest showed a turn of firmness not regularly viewable in a little of his predecessors by adhering to that line on Wednesday.
Naming the same starting XV to fool around Ireland in the Six Nations at Croke Park on Saturday that had lined up opposite England, Robinson stressed again that the usually sort of growth that interests him involves his group scoring some-more points than their opponents.
Scotland subject peculiarity of refereeing Scotland fifteen England fifteen Dan Parks hits half-century Sport on radio"We"re here to win games of rugby," was Robinson"s organisation reply to a subject connected with the swell Scotland have done in new matches. "That"s what we"re about and what we"re going to be judged on. We contingency never, ever dont think about that."
The thesis of the contest is that Scotland"s players have been praised by the critics, but taunted by the scoreboards. They were comprehensively knocked about by a improved side when they lost to France in the opening game, but they saw some-more than sufficient of the round to do improved in their waste to Wales and Italy and their 15-15 pull with England.
Scotland have been concerned in a little frustratingly parsimonious matches their majority new margins of defeats have been three, nine, 7 and 4 points but they have accomplished unequivocally bad in all of them.
"There"s a lot of aspiration and a lot of people are perplexing unequivocally hard," Robinson explained. "There has been a little genuine peculiarity in the line-out, in a little of the plays and in the go-forward we"ve had. But when it unequivocally comes down to the crux, what we have to do is assimilate how to win games.
"Argentina [last November], Wales, Italy and England were all covenant to the actuality that"s an area we unequivocally have to nail. If and when we entirely assimilate that afterwards this group can unequivocally move forward."
If luck, or at slightest the absence, has played any piece in the settlement of Scotland"s championship, Robinson competence take joy from the actuality that the damage concerns that had behind his group preference for twenty-four hours all privileged up and authorised him the oppulance of job on the same players who had come so close to reclaiming the Calcutta Cup a couple of days earlier.
The majority poignant be concerned had been Kelly Brown, the blindside flanker who suffered a critical head hit in a incident with England"s Ugo Monye early in the second half.
Although he showed no symptoms of the damage when he returned to Murrayfield on Monday morning, Brown still had to come by a series of cognitive tests, as demanded by determined healing protocols, prior to his place in the group to face Ireland could be confirmed.
There is still one slow disbelief around Brown as he has nonetheless to take hit in training. If he can come by that with no inauspicious reaction, he will consequence his 35th Scotland top in Croke Park.
Brown"s Glasgow clubmate Graeme Morrison will have his 23rd general coming on Saturday.
Last week, Robinson referred to that the centre"s 22nd top competence well be his last if he could not furnish a opening almost improved than a little of his new displays. Morrison responded with a glorious match, and his manager was happy to admit that response.
Robinson pronounced "I was gratified with the approach Graeme carried the round and ran strongly. I"ve done no tip that I"m a Graeme Morrison fan and I hold that carrying a centre of his peculiarity in the midfield, with his gait and physicality, is critical for us if we wish to win rugby matches."
Scotland XV H Southwell (Stade Francais); S Lamont (Scarlets), N De Luca (Edinburgh), G Morrison (Glasgow), M Evans (Glasgow); D Parks (Glasgow), C Cusiter (Glasgow, capt); A Jacobsen (Edinburgh), R Ford (Edinburgh), E Murray (Northampton), J Hamilton (Edinburgh), A Kellock (Glasgow), K Brown (Glasgow), J Barclay (Glasgow), J Beattie (Glasgow). Replacements S Lawson (Gloucester), A Dickinson (Gloucester), R Gray (Glasgow), A MacDonald (Edinburgh), M Blair (Edinburgh), P Godman (Edinburgh), S Danielli (Ulster).
