Duel at the Stoop with the World at stake

Sam Hidalgo-Clyne and Greig Laidlaw face off for club and country in the final showdown, Lewis Stuart writes
Nothing good came out of Scotland’s heavy defeat by Ireland in the RBS Six Nations Championship last month, save a vision of the future.

For the first time in a wretched campaign Greig Laidlaw was taken off before the final quarter, Sam Hidalgo-Clyne was given a decent run at scrum half and, suddenly, the home side were faster and more fluent.

“What we need,” observed a colleague after Hidalgo-Clyne posed problems for the rampant side in green, “is to match them against each other —…