Shankland and Curtis make World Cup move - but will Clarke respond?

For an hour at Hampden, Lawrence Shankland was a peripheral figure, a support act for George Hirst - Scotland's number nine - and diminished because of it. Shankland ran everywhere apart from where he is most effective. He dropped deep and ran wide, he sacrificed himself so that Hirst could be the one leading the line. He was in the margins of a nervy farewell to Hampden before the team heads for the United States on Sunday. That would change, of course, And thank goodness. …