Scotland must take hope from defeat
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For composure under pressure, Vern Cotter's performance at the top table was as cold-blooded as anything that happened on the pitch at Murrayfield.
Time and again the Scotland coach was asked about the shambolic display of the officials in this frenetic Six Nations match,
won 26-23 by Wales,
and time and again he gave his questioner the dead-eye.
His team broke, but Cotter did not.
He refused to bury referee Glen Jackson and his colleagues, even if his demeanour told you that he desperately wanted to.
Nobody does deadpan quite like Cotter.
If he poss…
Time and again the Scotland coach was asked about the shambolic display of the officials in this frenetic Six Nations match,
won 26-23 by Wales,
and time and again he gave his questioner the dead-eye.
His team broke, but Cotter did not.
He refused to bury referee Glen Jackson and his colleagues, even if his demeanour told you that he desperately wanted to.
Nobody does deadpan quite like Cotter.
If he poss…
