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SCOTLAND Coach has a gentle introduction to his first World Cup, but with it being crucial to get off to a good start, neither he, nor his team, will be taking the Portuguese lightly TWO years ago, as he prepared to take over the job of Scotland coach, Frank Hadden's proclamations of fitness for office carried an alarming echo of Iain Duncan Smith's famously ineffectual trumpeting of the qualities of the quiet man. The achievements catalogued on Hadden's rugby cv fell noticeably short of the stellar, while his self- effacing manner led you to fear for his safety in the shark- infested waters of international coaching.
It would be pushing things to say that Hadden has since rocketed Scotland into the rugby stratosphere reserved for regular world- beaters, but neither has there been any foundation for the sense of dread experienced at his appointment by those who had long admired his essential decency. Granted, the catastrophe magnet that was Matt Williams was never going to be a particularly hard act to follow, but Hadden has done far more than simply clean up the mess his predecessor left behind.See the full content of this document
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Perfectly Frank
So while Scottish rugby's Jurassic Tendency welcomed him into the job by muttering darkly about his lack of international playing experience, Hadden has since shown that a Test coach can carry out his duties well enough without an array of medals across his chest. Indeed, a status that would once have marked him out as an exception in international rugby has now b...
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