Flower of Scotland beginning to bloom once more

Scott Johnson started work yesterday, as the Australian Rugby Union’s director of rugby, charged with overseeing Wallabies’ coach Michael Cheika and helping to restore the sport and its national team to former glories in an increasingly difficult sporting landscape for the code Down Under.

One of the first questions he faced from the Australian media during his opening press conference was what he had been most proud of achieving during his near six-year spell in a similar post at the SRU, one he relinquished to return home.