Honest Questions Alasdair Reid Assesses What has to Be Addressed

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ALONE among international coaches, Frank Hadden is the sort of bloke from whom you'd happily to buy a secondhand car. Not for Honest Frank the sort of prevarication, mealy-mouthiness and plain old-fashioned porkies that are the stock-in-trade of others in his line of work. So when he says he's still not sure about his tactics and strategies for the World Cup, you can probably take him at face value.

So how on earth should the rest of us have any better idea about what might happen over the next few weeks as Scotland scuttle between Edinburgh and St Etienne in pursuit of the quarter-final place that will represent a World Cup pass mark? In balancing the need for game time against the danger of losing players to injuries, Hadden decided that two matches would fit the bill just nicely.

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Honest Questions Alasdair Reid Assesses What has to Be Addressed

However, it was a policy that was always likely to leave critical questions unanswered.

Given a scenario in which the most significant date in Hadden's diary is September 29, the day Scotland take on Italy in...

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