After World Cup pain isn’t it time you really were Scotland the brave? | Eddie Butler

Give us a fight rather than a promise is the plea to the Six Nations underdogs who have so often been backed to come good and so often disappointedForgive me, proud nation of Scotland, if this feels like the short straw. It’s just that you have – not that you stand accused of doing it deliberately – failed to deliver when your cause has been promoted right here. Perhaps it wasn’t so last year, before your whitewash special, because to be honest, any claim that you might, in 2015, be about to unleash a 1990 special, one of those walk-out bravura campaigns, would have been a sackable offence.In …