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Article: Familiar faults return to haunt beleaguered Scotland
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- The Scotsman
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- March 17, 2008
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Italy 23 Scotland 20
ANOTHER tough game for Scotland, another early collapse, another
inspiring fightback and another disappointing denouement in which
Frank Hadden's team were out-thought and out-played when the time
came to secure the points.
This final Test match of Scotland's RBS Six Nations campaign was
wholly different to that at Murrayfield last year when Italy grasped
their first away win in the championship, and yet, paradoxically,
there were real similarities in how the Scots managed to pass up the
chance at victory and finish again with just one win in the
tournament. Italy are a decent side, growing in confidence, against
Scotland certainly, believing in their pack's ability to ...