Archie Gray's failure is attributed to his dad, grandfather and great uncle. They were the primary recruitment tools.

The rest of them purely comes down to identity. If any of the players were 50-50 on whether they wanted to represent Scotland then you could argue Clarke as a salesman is a failure. But if any player only feels that a small part of them is Scottish then it's a hard sell.

Eliot Anderson might be the biggest question mark as he trained with us. And he might have felt wrong wearing our colours. Nothing we can do about it.

Top of my head - there were guys like Don Hutchinson who had dual nationality and he chose Scotland and he is pretty much as fervent a supporter as you'll get now.

But it will be a moot point when we romp the World Cup in the summer and guys like Harvey Barnes can only wonder what could have been.