The debate around Scotland’s greatest ever player has reignited again recently, with Russell endorsements growing louder and louder. <\/p>\n
The main counter argument is that he has never won anything in a Scotland jersey, never even come close. Now he has a chance to put that right.<\/p>\n
If Scotland can beat Ireland in Dublin – which would be a significant achievement in itself given they have lost the past 11 meetings – and France fail to take care of their business against England in Paris, Scotland will be champions. <\/p>\n
For Russell, that would eclipse everything.<\/p>\n
“Winning something for Scotland, especially the Six Nations, would be definitely the peak of my career,” he said.<\/p>\n
“When you start playing for Scotland, you always want to win it, obviously, and we’ve never put ourselves in a position where we can. So now we’re in that position, it’s all to play for this weekend.<\/p>\n
“Making sure that the occasion doesn’t get to us will be so important, but, yeah, it’ll definitely be the top thing in my career if we can win it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The debate around Scotland’s greatest ever player has reignited again recently, with Russell endorsements growing louder and louder.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-335479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}