Scotland have two home games to start the Six Nations, a relatively clean bill of health, plus class, nous and physicality. Do they dare to dream?
The alarm that forced the evacuation of the building where Gregor Townsend was about to talk about his squad for the Six Nations - a portent of doom for the Scots or a siren signalling their intent?A band of 37 players with newcomers in the exciting Saracens fly-half Fergus Burke and Glasgow Warriors number eight Jack Mann.
And there's also Gray, who won a Premiership and Champions Cup double with Exeter before moving to France where his team, Bordeaux, sits atop the French league. Glasgow's Tom Jordan is a 10, 12 and 15 who was brilliant when the Warriors roared away to win the URC. Scott Robertson, his former coach at the Crusaders, says Burke is the type of player who can command a room and a team.
One of Scotland's issues in the past has been physicality - or not quite enough of it at critical moments.
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