Six Nations 2010: quick ball is essential against the Italians, says Kelly Brown

By Alasdair Reid Published: 7:56PM GMT twenty-five February 2010

One that got away: Scotland flanker Kelly Brown"s disallowed try opposite Wales Photo: PA

Twice, Brown was denied tries by the minute margins from a cross-field flog from Dan Parks that he usually usually unsuccessful to collect, and from the pass from Sean Lamont that was deemed to have left forward.

The latter was probably the some-more agonising for Scotland"s supporters, for in the discordant vicinity of the Millennium Stadium majority of them unsuccessful to notice that arbitrate George Clancy had blown his alarm the present after Brown picked up the ball.

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But the player reflects some-more ruefully on the former, when it was Sean"s hermit Rory, by afterwards struggling with a critical knee injury, who sum with the loud Welsh throng to repudiate him the score.

"The flog came in and I was screaming for the ball, Brown recalled. "But unfortunately, so were 74,000 Welsh fans, so Rory didn"t listen to me. I saw him go for it, but he had finished in his middle vinculum and he usually couldn"t jump."

So a bad opening from the Glasgow forward, then? Anything but. In each alternative aspect of his diversion Brown had a stormer, and it was probably usually the mystification annoyed by Parks"s palatable playmaking skills opposite Wales that meant the man of the compare endowment was since to the fly-half instead.

Things competence have left opposite him in Cardiff, but Brown was probably propitious to be on the representation at all. Only a couple of months ago, he stood well down the blindside queue, but he was propelled brazen by the injuries that knocked Jason White and Alasdair Strokosch out of the equation. There was verbalise at one time of Nathan Hines receiving over at No 6, but Brown"s superb form for Glasgow was sufficient to safeguard that usual clarity prevailed.

Of course, it is not his talents as a try-scorer that effect Brown his place, some-more his mortal gifts as a tackler and behind row enforcer. In the alliterative lax brazen multiple he forms with John Barclay and Johnnie Beattie for bar and country, the whim things is in all left to the alternative two. But Brown is most some-more than a blocker, for his all-round footballing skills are such that it is not wholly over the realms of probability that he could be asked to flog goals for Scotland sometime as he has in the past for Glasgow and Melrose.

Fortunately, Brown still relishes the graft, the grub and the unsung chores that will be the concentration of his work opposite an Italy side that creates up for the miss of any great beautiful force with an greatly earthy proceed to brazen play.

"They are a really big, earthy side and the hit area will be huge," pronounced the 32-times-capped 27-year-old, who was lifted in the inclusive rugby hothouse of St Boswells, the Borders encampment that additionally gave the universe Keith Robertson and Bryan Redpath.

"They put a lot of vigour on the breakdown. We need as most discerning round to fool around off as possible, and on tip of that the set-piece, the line-out and scrum, contingency be mark on if we"re going to put them underneath as most vigour as possible."

The loose-forward strife of Scotland"s supposed Killer B"s and the Italian behind row might have been devalued as far as spectators are endangered by the damage to Sergio Parisse that has ruled the No 8 out of the Six Nations, but Brown is in no risk of desiring that his side will have things any simpler in the Stadio Flaminio as a consequence.

Brown said: "Zanni has played for multiform seasons at No 6, and is really under-rated. People verbalise about Parisse and Mauro Bergamasco, but Zanni is a really great player as well, and positively a threat. Parisse is world-class, of course, but their behind row is still really clever and we have to safeguard that we levy ourselves on them."

Given Scotland"s rubbing rate in the Millennium Stadium, when Thom Evans, Rory Lamont and Chris Cusiter all suffered critical injuries, it is frequency startling that most observers have referred to that the diversion opposite Wales proves that rugby is apropos as well physical, as well dangerous even. Brown, however, is not between them.

"What happened to Thom, Mossy [Paterson] and Rory was incredibly unfortunate," he said. "Our thoughts are still with them. But as players you can"t means to concentration as well most on that since if you do be concerned about removing harm it"s a certain thing that you will be injured.

"We concentration on the job. We"re all conditioned to be the most appropriate we can presumably be, and we contingency have sum certitude in the own bodies. As the diversion moves on, so do we as players."