Andy Robinson, Scotland's head coach, has been engaged in a charm offensive in the past week, undertaking a busy round of meetings with players, officials and media.
He has needed to.
The harsh fact is that he is in the course of compiling the sort of competitive record that must raise serious questions with one win at the very end of two Six Nations Championship bids that were over before they started, followed by becoming the first Scotland coach to fail to take his team to the knockout stages of a World Cup.
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