It Really Is Rob Dewey Time

“Back” when Scotland and Edinburgh were one-dimensional in attack and never got the ball past 12, at least you could count on Rob Dewey.

When within 10 meters of the line, it would be “Rob Dewey time.” Chuck him the ball and let him have a batter—at close range he was tricky to stop and you stood a good chance of crossing the line.

Soon, fame and injury beckoned at Ulster and by then Scotland’s opponents had him well marshaled. Briefly last year he appeared in the Churchill Cup A Team looking like an almost different player, displaying the “worrying” trait of varying his lines of running and offloading with fairly decent results.

With Scotland having a few problems getting the ball past the No. 12 shirt at times on Saturday (so much so that BBC pundit and former Ireland center Rob Henderson had worked out most of Scotland’s Morrison-centric game plan by half time), could now be the time to announce Rob Dewey’s return to Scotland to team up with former central-belt foes the Glasgow Warriors?

Yes it could.

Having been shunted into a club team by lovable Aussie Matt Williams, Dewey is ready to return to this fair country and stake his claim in a Glasgow back line which next year will already have the likes of Chris Cusiter, Mark McMillan, Ruaridh Jackson, Andy Henderson, Graeme Morrison, and of course both Evans brothers competing for places.

Exciting times are ahead for Sean Lineen’s Glasgow. If you were him, you’d want to stick around there for a while rather than get involved with the muck, higher up...

Speaking of which, after a considerable session in the Irish-mobbed Roseburn Bar on Saturday, your fearless Scottish Rugby Blog correspondents witnessed the second half debacle at Murrayfield first hand.

Hopefully Al will be here with his near-patented Big Rant later. Watch out, Frank.