Six Nations: David Denton to bring third row energy

IT WASN’T what Scotland needed, the loss of their outstanding back Alex Dunbar just before the squad jumped on a plane for London, especially with everything that had gone before. The journalists at the press conference had to make do without the usual team sheet simply because Dunbar’s late accident meant that the press officer responsible had to rip up the old one and start again. Vern Cotter looked even more hangdog than usual and bemoaned his fate. I have attended cheerier funerals.