Scotland were one of the founding members of the home nation's tournament but for long periods of time they have really struggled to hold their own with their success rate nowhere near as positive as the other main teams in the home nations.
Scotland surprise winners over Australia in one of their three warm up matches in November come into the 2010 Six Nations with renewed confidence and with a team who, if they can’t win the tournament, can certainly register themselves as a force to be reckoned with.
Under new coach, Andy Robinson, there seems a greater sense of purpose and the team have become adept at stopping the opposition from playing and taking advantage of attacking positions gained. Despite the obvious improvements, Scotland have been given generous odds of 20/1 to win the tournament, which although is unlikely it certainly cannot be ruled out. Any bet on Scotland can be accessed by clicking any of the Bookmaker links on this page.
There will be many that think that the Triple Crown may be a distinct possibility, although that task will be made difficult with away games against both Wales and Ireland. Nonetheless they can be backed at 28/1 with Ladbrokes to win their 11th Triple Crown.
Scotland Head Coach, Andy Robinson has named his squad for the opening two Six Nations fixtures against France at Murrayfield and Wales at the Millennium Stadium. Dan Parks who has shown his best from for Glasgow this season has been recalled, plus there are debut calls for two of his Glasgow team mates, second row, Richie Gray and fly half, Ruandh Jackson. The team will be captained by scrum half, Chris Cusiter. The squad is as follows:
Forwards
John Barclay, Johnnie Beattie, Kelly Brown (all Glasgow Warriors), Alasdair Dickinson (Gloucester), Ross Ford (Edinburgh), Richie Gray, Dougie Hall (both Glasgow Warriors), Jim Hamilton (Edinburgh), Nathan Hines (Leinster), Allan Jacobsen (Edinburgh), Alastair Kellock (Glasgow Warriors), Scott Lawson (Gloucester), Moray Low (Glasgow Warriors), Alan MacDonald (Edinburgh), Euan Murray (Northampton Saints), Alasdair Strokosch (Gloucester)
Backs
Chris Cusiter (Glasgow Warriors), Simon Danielli (Ulster), Nick De Luca (Edinburgh), Max Evans, Thom Evans (Glasgow Warriors), Phil Godman (Edinburgh), Alex Grove (Worcester), Ruaridh Jackson (Glasgow Warriors), Sean Lamont (Scarlets), Rory Lawson (Gloucester), Graeme Morrison (Glasgow Warriors), Chris Paterson (Edinburgh), Dan Parks (Glasgow Warriors) and Hugo Southwell (Stade Francais).
The Scottish fixtures for the 2010 Six Nations is as follows:
Scotland have been through a tough spell in the last ten years and they showed that with a poor showing in the 2009 Six Nations. they were only able to beat Italy which mean they once again finished 5th in the Championship. Frank Hadden resigned following that performance and he was replaced by former England coach Andy Robinson who will be hoping to improve the sides fortunes in 2010.
We can establish that Scottish rugby got off the ground with a victory over England in 1871 and then two years later the Scottish Union got off the ground and is a founding member of the Five/Six nations and it has won it or shared it over 20 times with the latest victory in 2000.
Having participated in the Six Nations since its inception Scotland has only achieved the ultimate of the Grand Slam a total of three times in 1925, 1984 and 1990.
Murrayfield is the home of Scottish Rugby with a capacity of just under 70,000 but they have managed to get over 100,000 people into the ground in the early days.
Top Scottish players include, Gavin Hastings, Gregor Townsend and Chris Patterson.
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