It was a rare if not unique situation that Scotland's rugby players found themselves in yesterday when drawn in a pool for a major championship against Samoa, a team who were in a higher tier of seeds yet have never beaten them.
It was a rare if not unique situation that Scotland's rugby players found themselves in yesterday when drawn in a pool for a major championship against Samoa, a team who were in a higher tier of seeds yet have never beaten them.
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Kevin Ferrie
The win achieved in Apia last summer thanks to Rob Harley's last-ditch debut try may have been narrow, but it was enough to ensure that the current crop of players maintain a psychological advantage first established when Gavin Hastings tore into their opponents' countrymen in the opening stages of the 1991 World Cup quarter-final with the Scotland pack in hot pursuit.
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