Finn Russell. Discuss. Which is more or less all those in Scottish rugby have been doing for the past couple of weeks. The discussion, mercifully, will pause for 80 minutes on Sunday when the mercurial genius will do his thing at Murrayfield against the All Blacks, reinstated from nowhere at No 10. Then, no doubt, the debate will resume in earnest, the tenor of it determined by whichever way the mercury has flowed.
Only two weeks ago we were speculating over the end of Russell’s international career, dropped from Gregor Townsend’s squad altogether just a year out from the next World Cup. Townsend was a mercurial genius in his own playing days, but it seemed all too clear that when his quicksilver came into contact with Russell’s, the reaction had become toxic. We shall know more on that come four o’clock-ish Sunday afternoon.
