Scotsman (Sport): Nothing wrong with ambition on the stairway to rugby heaven

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‘Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp/Or what’s a heaven for?” Mark Dodson, the SRU’s chief executive, evidently agrees with Robert Browning. (The line, incidentally, was also a favourite of John Buchan’s Glasgow grocer, Dickson McCunn.) Certainly many are likely to think that setting a target of winning the World Cup is reaching for the stars. John Beattie, not usually short on optimism, has called it unrealistic. Others will judge that the mere expression of this aim for the holders of the 2012 Six Nations wooden spoon is an invitation to mockery. “But what’s a heaven for?”




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