It will take a near perfect display to upset the hurting champions, writes former Scotland forward Johnnie Beattie as Gregor Townsend takes his team to Dublin for the final Six Nations weekend.
There will be an emotional reaction from Scotland in Dublin, a willingness to scrap, a realisation that a strong finish and a first Triple Crown since 1990 is still possible.
Ireland have won nine in a row against Scotland and we don't need to look too far back to find the last one - theat Stade de France. Ireland were cruelly comfortable with our attack that night. It was a humiliation for Scotland who need to use the memory of it as a driver. Ireland score a huge percentage of their tries off lineout starter plays. Scotland need to cause chaos on that front. Look at the Ben Earl try last weekend. An Irish lineout disrupted, an Earl surge downfield, Peter O'Mahony scrambling back and getting binned amid the mayhem. And then Earl scored in the phases that followed.
With the pressure on did they have a collective rush of blood to the head in going away from the script? Only Gregor, the coaching staff and the players will know the answer to that question. Finn Russell and Ben White kicked more ball in the first three games than any other players from any other country. That kicking game had served them well whereas in Rome, either pre-game or mid-game, they decided they had the power and technical ability to take the game to Italy with ball in hand.
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