Hadden delighted by experiment
Scotland coach Frank Hadden has pronounced himself delighted with the experiments he carried out in the Bank of Scotland Corporate August Test against Ireland.
A hat-trick from Andrew Henderson and tries from Ally Hogg and Euan Murray secured a 31-21 success over the Triple Crown champions in the World Cup warm-up match.
"We knew in training that there was a sharpness there. I knew after the 10-a-side tournament that we had that all the rehab had gone really well and it just needed to be shown in a full 15-a-side game," said Hadden.
The Scotland coach fielded virtually a full-strength side but there were a couple of changes from the line-up he preferred in the 2007 Six Nations with the World Cup next month in mind.
The most high profile and interesting was positional; Chris Paterson being moved from the key man in the back three to his favoured stand-off role.
Hadden was pleased with the former Edinburgh utility back's performance and hinted it may be something he perseveres with in September's tournament.
The former Edinburgh coach said: "I think Chris gave exactly what you would expect from him.
"He's a very talented footballer and he made one excellent half break while his handling was pretty good in difficult conditions
"We need to look in a bit more detail as we always do to evaluate how different players performed because it's a difficult thing to do straight away.
"We'll look at how the different pairings went and how the units went and take things from there."
