WAY back in the Seventies when rugby really was a game for all shapes and sizes, the Scotland selectors enforced an unwritten rule which has only come to light with the passing of David Shedden. A champion schoolboy sprinter, he played 15 Tests on the wing but only after the scales had been literally tipped in his favour.
Sandy Carmichael, the courageous prop who took a fearful battering during the Lions’ infamous run-in with the Canterbury ‘butchers’ in 1971, explained how they helped the lightly-built new boy at his official weigh-in.
“The Scottish sel...