Allan Massie: Our record against France is terrible

Victory in Rome was like the arrival of the first swallow heralding spring. But, as we all know, one swallow doesn’t make a summer. You need a flock of them. Or, to put it in simple rugby terms: if we are to believe that Vern Cotter’s Scotland have turned the corner, we need another win, either against France tomorrow, or Ireland in Dublin next week. Otherwise 2016 will be just another year in which we avoided the Wooden Spoon, but no more than that.