SCOTTISH Rugby chairman John Jeffrey has called on the country’s leading teams to develop the kind of hard-edged, winning mentality that took his own side to the Grand Slam back in 1990.
Speaking at the governing body’s annual general meeting and at a subsequent media conference at the weekend, Jeffrey admitted that, notwithstanding the odd exceptional result, last season had been a disappointment. Scotland’s men only won two games in the Six Nations, while the women’s team and the under-20s lost all five matches in their Championships. And although Edinburgh showed promise in their first season under new head coach Mike Blair, both they and Glasgow failed to get beyond the quarter-finals in either European competition or in the United Rugby Championship, with Warriors coach Danny Wilson having been sacked at the end of the season as a result of his team’s poor performances.
