Ospreys boss Scott Johnson is set to join the Scotland coaching team © Getty Images

The Scotsman's David Ferguson reports on the appointment of Scott Johnson to the Scotland coaching team.

"The addition of Scott Johnson to the Scotland coaching team is one of the most intriguing and bold moves made by any Scotland coach, never mind Andy Robinson. "Scrape away the SRU’s trumpeting of the appointment and there is perhaps less to the Australian coach than was suggested yesterday. He is not the experienced international coach one might expect to advise Andy Robinson, his five years in the Wales backroom team, just over a year with Australia and a shorter stint in America incomparable with Robinson’s 11 years with England, Scotland and the British and Irish Lions. "And neither is he the “sage-like” figure we picked up from Robinson’s revelation at the start of the month that received the backing of the new SRU chief executive Mark Dodson to be added to his team. For a sage in a rugby sense, the likes of Brian Ashton, Alan Gaffney or Scots Jim Telfer or Richie Dixon spring to mind. But we understand now that that was not what Robinson had in mind after all. He does not wish a veteran coach to watch over him, but a different and forthright rugby mind to challenge him. Johnson has a reputation for saying it as it is, and what Robinson has been attracted to is a new dynamic and new approach to energise his coaching team."