Andy Robinson has been in Scotland for just over 30 months, but he is now beginning to understand the distinct national trait of feeling hard done by. David Ferguson writes in The Scotsman.
"That intangible "award" will mean less to the coach, however, than the desire to prove that his team is genuinely progressing. It is clear in the way Scotland are playing that they are developing a more exciting, attacking style of rugby under Robinson and his assistants Gregor Townsend and Graham Steadman, but without the end result of a victory the methods will always remain open to question.
"So, yesterday, the head coach turned to his rising frustration levels in this first championship with Scotland, admitting the 15-15 draw with England merely took them higher at the weekend.
"He praised the match official Marius Jonker for his early handling of the game, but it was obvious that the whistler lost the place as he issued three final warnings to England and still, when they were penalised again immediately after the third warning, he failed to yellow card anyone. Coming on the back of Scotland receiving two yellow cards in Cardiff and the failure of English referee Dave Pearson to send Italian flanker Josh Sole to the sin-bin for a blatant try-killing opportunity in Rome, one can see why Robinson is beginning to lose his patience."
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