Under-pressure Andy Robinson set for defining France clash

Andy Robinson, the former England head coach, is under severe pressure going into Sunday's home clash with France and may quit his role with Scotland if the team suffers a third successive Six Nations loss this season.

Robinson saw his team throw away the chance of a home win over England and then had two players yellow carded in the second half of their loss to Wales in Cardiff and has always said that he would walk away from the job if he felt the team was not responding.

That puts him under the miscroscope against a French side that had to deal with the farcical late cancellation of their home game with Ireland two weeks ago when a frozen pitch lef them frustrated after an opening round win over Italy.

Veteran France lock Pascal Pape is trying to talk up the hosts and has dismissed Scotland's poor record saying: "In the Six Nations they lost their first match at home to England (13-6) when to my mind they deserved to win the game. They lost to Wales (27-13) without deserving to. This team has not had the luck to win for the moment but they remain extremely dangerous."

Pape, twice a member of a Grand Slam winning side in 2004 and 2010, said that the intimidating atmosphere at Murrayfield would only serve to fire up the French."Murrayfield is part of Six Nations mythology," said Pape.